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Outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov speaks to the lawmakers in the parliament in Sofia on February 21, 2013. AFP PHOTO / NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV

Bulgaria’s outgoing prime minister, who resigned shockingly yesterday, accused the Bulgarian Turk party leader of plotting an assassination attempt on his life.

Speaking from the parliamentary rostrum just minutes after Parliament accepted with overwhelming majority the resignation of his government, Boyko Borisov said the leader of the country’s Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedom (HÖH), Ahmet Doğan, wanted him dead, citing a document from the intelligence of a foreign country. Doğan was subjected to an armed assault attack Jan. 19 while on stage addressing delegates of his party.

“The intelligence agency of a partner country has provided documents, which clearly show that there were preparations for an assassination attempt on my life,” Borisov said in a short and emotional speech.

Borisov directly accused Doğan as being the mastermind behind the assassination plot and called on Parliament to form an ad hoc committee to make public the classified document, Bulgarian news agency reported.

In a response to Borisov’s claims, HÖH member Lütvi Mestan said his party would not be a part of such depression, Anatolia news agency has reported. He also claimed the party was planning to put bloody incidents on a scene, according to reports they have indicating that.