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 tabled to the Court by the Ruse District Governor Mariya
Dimova, and by city counselors from the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rightsand
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.