Turks Have Conquered Bulgaria - Armenian Ambassador

Views on BG | October 3, 2007, Wednesday // 00:00

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"Bulgaria is the country, where there is no need to tell about Armenians and you cannot find a single Bulgarian who will express a negative attitude towards Armenians", said Armenian Ambassador Sergey Manasaryan to Bulgaria. In Bulgaria pupils are taught about Armenia at schools.

"Everyone is aware of the Armenian liberating movement. You may find various materials about Andranik and his supporters in the center of Sofia. One of the leading channels broadcasts one hour program about Armenia each week, where they elucidate not only the modern Armenia, but also reflect on its historical problems, including 1915 Armenian Genocide", he said. About 300 Armenians live in Bulgaria today. By the way, no Azerbaijani community exists in Bulgaria. Instead, the Armenian community collides with Turkish community, which is quite big, about 9000, and powerful and "Movement of Rights and Freedoms" is the third in the Bulgarian parliament by its power. Ruben Grigoryan is the only Armenian representative in the Bulgarian Parliament. And that Armenian deputy tries to monitor all steps of the Armenian community in Bulgaria.

The recognition of the Armenian genocide in 1915 is a matter of fact in Bulgaria: "The Armenian Genocide is a vulnerable issue for the Armenians living in Bulgaria. This issue becomes more hurtful on 24 April each year. This year the Genocide bill entered the Bulgarian parliament for the first time. Only one article was published by the Turkish community, which was rather unreasonable and that was the only way that the Turkish community expressed its discontent", said the Ambassador.

Sergey Manasaryan said that judging from that article we could suppose that the Turkish community admitted the Armenian Genocide. "If you talk to an average Turkish then he will, certainly, say that what happened to the Armenians in 1915 was a genocide and will add, that their society is not ready to admit that fact". The bill of recognizing the Armenian Genocide was present to the Bulgarian parliament by "Ataka" power, later the Macedonian party and the whole opposition jointed the bill, but it was not adopted since it did not gather enough votes. "Ataka" often organizes protest actions in Bulgaria where they give harsh estimations to Turkish misdeeds. Not only the Turkish power hampers the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in the Bulgarian Parliament, but also other Turkish officials in Bulgaria do not allow it.

"There is a coalition in Bulgaria and the Turkish ethnic party is the consistent part of it and it's hard to say how the Armenian issue will be solved in the parliament". By the Bulgarian legislation, the activities of ethnic parties are forbidden. "That party is called "Movement of Rights and Freedoms" and it is open to everyone.

This is a pure Turkish organization, which is economically powerful and well organized", said the Ambassador Manasaryan. The Ambassador noticed that the Turkish activities cause great tension in Bulgaria.

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