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