Raffi Bilal Elected Deputy Chairman Of Turkey’s Social-Democratic Pe

RAFFI BILAL ELECTED DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF TURKEY’S SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S PARTY

Noyan Tapan
June 17, 2009

ISTANBUL, JUNE 17, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Istanbul-based
Armenian Raffi Bilal has been elected deputy chairman for
external relations of the Social-Democratic People’s Party (SHP)
of Turkey. According to Marmara daily, at the June 15 sitting of
the party’s board, Bilal was elected a member of the chairmanship,
then he was elected deputy chairman of the party during a meeting of
the central administrative board.

Raffi Bilal is one of the founders of the Social-Democratic People’s
Party.

After the creation of the party, he was elected a member of its board
in 2002. In 2005 he started to work as a person in charge of the EU
platform, and since 2008 he has been assisant of the secretary-general
of the SHP’s central administrative board.

Besides Bilal, the party board had another member of Armenian descent –
Talin Manuelian, Marmara reported.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS