Sofia News Agency, Bulgaria
May 24 2008

Bulgarian Court Rules in Favor of Armenian Genocide Recognition

24 May 2008, Saturday

The District Administrative Court in Bulgaria’s Danube city of Ruse
rejected Friday the appeals against the declaration of the City
Council recognizing the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

The appeals were table to the Court by the Ruse District Governor
Mariya Dimova, and by city counselors from the ethnic Turkish Movement
for Rights and Freedoms party.

The Court ruling states that the declaration recognizing the genocide
over Armenians and Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire could not be
disputed because it was not an administrative act, it was only
declarative, and had no legal consequences.

The declaration recognizing the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman
Empire between 1915 and 1922 was adopted by the Ruse City Council on
April 17.