I said very clearly this morning - for 10 days all our activists have been attacked on the phone and when they go back to their places of birth. They all came and told me that the theses they were being attacked with were: “Are we going to give our party to them? Are the Turks going to give up their party?“. This was announced by Yordan Tsonev from DPS to the media, quoted by novini.bg.
„In this Facebook forum - „I support Ahmet Dogan”, moderated by Elvan Attila, haven't you seen ethnic appeals, strange? I've read dozens, if not hundreds. What had to be done to not have this feeling of "ethnic flavor"? First, the posts that have an ethnic character had to be deleted. Three immediately posted in support of Peevski and the team he leads. That's why I said we have that feeling. If they don't want us to have this feeling, stop harassing colleagues with ethnic motives and delete the posts. Was I perfectly clear where this feeling came from?“, he asked.
Hamid Hamid added: “Bulgarian citizens of Muslim origin, ethnic Turks are aggressively harassed by former representatives of the DPS, who instill ethnic hatred against the different. This is not the philosophy of DPS, this is not what the Bulgarian ethnic model, the creator of which is Ahmed Dogan, consists of. I think that Dr. Ahmed Dogan will not allow a group of deribes who are trying to save hide their skins and remain MPs, use first him as a screen, and then the ethnic card to survive for a few more months. This is not DPS, this is anti-DPS. We propose that we all stand together and accept all the different in DPS, as we have been doing for years. Bulgarian Muslims see what Mr. Peevski is doing for them.“
Tsonev insisted: “Make a distinction between the apparatus that operates and the people.“
In his words, the former MPs from DPS who threatened people are Jevdet Chakarov, Ramadan Atalai, Jeyhan Ibryamov, Sevim Ali and others. “Will you betray our ethnicity, our party?“ they asked on the phone.