ARF pays tribute to the victims of the so-called Revival Process

The Alliance for Rights and Freedoms paid tribute to the victims of the so-called Revival Process by laying flowers and wreaths in front of the monument to the youngest among them – 17-month-old Türkan, in the village of Mogilyane. The ceremony at the fountain-monument was attended by the party’s co-chairs Taner Ali, Sevim Ali and Hayri Sadakov, MPs, and the Consul General of Turkey in Plovdiv Emre Manav. 41 years have passed since the forcible change of Turkish names to Bulgarian ones on orders of the communist regime. During the process, 850,000 Muslims were renamed – of them over a thousand were sent to prisons or to the Belene concentration camp, 29 people were killed and dozens were injured.

“Today we are here not only to honor the memory of the victims, but also to appeal to the public and institutions to be kind and good to people, and not to force them to do things,” said Taner Ali, quoted by BTA. He emphasized that it was because of democracy and the defense of human rights that Ahmed Dogan created a party.

The co-chair of the party is convinced that in the next parliament the political force will have more MPs: “Because we are the ideological and historical successor of the authentic DPS – the one that was created by our chairman on January 4, 1990.”

Bulgarian Turks mark 41 years since Revival Process protests

Editor: Diana Tsankova
Photo: BTA