Bulgaria's Vice President Seeks Forgiveness From Turkish Minority

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Bulgaria's Vice President Seeks Forgiveness From Turkish
Minority


Bulgaria's Vice President Seeks Forgiveness From Turkish Minority

SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgarian Vice President Angel Marin used the
occasion of the Forgiveness religious holiday to ask forgiveness for
violence against the ethnic Turkish minority during the so-called
revival process in 1972. Speaking at a commemoration Sunday (17 March)
organised by the party of the Turkish minority Movement for Rights and
Freedom, Marin admitted that all of Bulgaria's people should equally
bear the guilt and responsibility for silently watching the forceful
change in the names of the Turkish population. The meeting took place
in the village of Barutin, which was the centre of the violence.

(Dnevnik, BEF News, Standart - 18/03/02; Mediapool, BTA - 18/03/02)

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