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Protests against Varna District Governor over Armenian Genocide Controversy
Politics | June 11, 2008, Wednesday // 00:00
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About 50 persons protested Wednesday before the building of the District Governor against his decision to contest the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the City Council.
On June 5, the Varna District Governor Hristo Kontrov, who is a navy admiral from the reserve, issued an order returning for another hearing to the City Council its decision from May 21 to establish April 24 as the day for honoring the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-22.
The protesters were mostly sympathizers of the nationalist party VMRO, the Sofia Mayor's rightist party GERB, and member of the Armenian community in the city of Varna.
They raised slogans saying "Varna Is Not the Bosphorus" alluding to the fact that Kontrov was appointed District Governor from the quota of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which is one of the three parties of the governing three-way coalition.
The Governor agreed to meet with representatives of the protesters but according to the local VMRO leader Kostadin Kostadinov he had failed to explain the reasons for contesting the decision to honor the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
Kostadinov expressed his resent at the Governor's actions, and sad he was politically biased and a servant of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
The VMRO members threatened they would organize a much larger and less peaceful protest against the District Governor's action.
On June 5, the Varna District Governor Hristo Kontrov, who is a navy admiral from the reserve, issued an order returning for another hearing to the City Council its decision from May 21 to establish April 24 as the day for honoring the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-22.
The protesters were mostly sympathizers of the nationalist party VMRO, the Sofia Mayor's rightist party GERB, and member of the Armenian community in the city of Varna.
They raised slogans saying "Varna Is Not the Bosphorus" alluding to the fact that Kontrov was appointed District Governor from the quota of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which is one of the three parties of the governing three-way coalition.
The Governor agreed to meet with representatives of the protesters but according to the local VMRO leader Kostadin Kostadinov he had failed to explain the reasons for contesting the decision to honor the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
Kostadinov expressed his resent at the Governor's actions, and sad he was politically biased and a servant of the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
The VMRO members threatened they would organize a much larger and less peaceful protest against the District Governor's action.
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