BULGARIAN CHURCH SYNOD CALLS 1915 EVENTS GENOCIDE
YERKIR
07.12.2007 12:10
YEREVAN (YERKIR) – The Bulgarian church synod has sent a letter of
condolence to Armenian Catholicos Garegin II over the Armenian genocide
of 1915, Armenian Foreign Ministry has reported. For the first time,
the synod characterizes the events as "genocide."
The letter also says that the Armenian and Bulgarian peoples have
suffered a lot from the Ottoman Empire for centuries, indicating that
the two Christian nations have the same fate.
About 700,000 ethnic Armenians reside in Bulgaria.