Assaulted Turkish-Bulgarian Leader: Congress Will Be Remembered

Politics » DOMESTIC | January 19, 2013, Saturday // 13:42
Bulgaria: Assaulted Turkish-Bulgarian Leader: Congress Will Be Remembered TV grab from Kanal 3 showing Ahmed Dogan (L) trying to duck as an assaulter points a gun at his head.

Saturday's 8th national congress of the Movement of Rights and Freedoms party will be long remembered, stated leader Ahmed Dogan, just before being assaulted.

Dogan was attacked with a hand gun as he was delivering the opening lines of his speech at the party congress, expected to re-elect him as leader.

The party chair miraculously was unharmed in the incident, while the assaulter suffered a the hands of delegates, before being taken out of the hall by security.

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