BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT REJECTS PROPOSAL TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan
Feb 9, 2010

SOFIA, FEBRUARY 9, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Bulgarian
parliament did not adopt the proposal to recognize the Armenian
Genocide. Zaman paper (Turkey) reported that the Ataka party submitted
three proposals on Turkey to the parliamentary committee. The party
called on the Bulgarian parliament to demand material compensation
from Ankara for the Bulgarians displaced from Turkey, to call the
1396-1913 events genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against
the Bulgarian people, and to recognize the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

The parliament rejected all the three proposals, saying that
recognition of the Armenian Genocide may have negative consequences
for relations between Turkey and Bulgaria.