Bulgaria shouldn’t have election campaign in Turkish.
Bulgarian MP from the Parliamentary Group of Patriotic Front, Slavcho Atanasov, told the aforementioned at a parliament session, responding to the speech of Lütfi Mestan, leader of Bulgarian ethnic Turks’ Movement for Right and Freedoms (HÖH) party , Bulgarian Focus information agency reports. The campaign relates to the presidential elections which are to be held in Bulgaria in 2016.
Mestan made a smart move defending the Turkish language by the history of the Slavs, showing off his knowledge of Old Bulgarian. He reminded that Cyril and Methodius invented a writing system so that the Slavs could study the word of God in their native tongue, which wasn’t welcomed under the doctrines of that time. Following this, Methodius went on citing from the rostrum the texts in Old Bulgarian.
After this, he showed the invoice for a fine, which was imposed on him by the governor of Razgrad for addressing the voters in Turkish during the opening of election campaign.
However, Slavcho Atanasov objected to him. According to the former, there is nothing wrong with talking to God in one’s tongue. But the election campaign in Bulgaria should be held in the official language, Bulgarian, Atanasov stressed.
In 2015, Slavcho Atanasov participated in a march commemorating the Armenian Genocide in Plovdiv city. And on April 24, he was the only politician from Plovdiv to visit the liturgy held in the city’s Armenian church of St. Kevork.