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Bulgaria's far-right party "Ataka" has started a petition among the Members of Parliament in order to ask the Constitutional Court to declare the ethnic Turkish party DPS ("Movement for Rights and Freedoms") unconstitutional.
The reason for Ataka's motion is Monday's statement of Bulgarian ethnic Turkish leader Ahmed Dogan who likened the Balkan War of 1912-1913 in which Bulgarian,Serbian, Greek, and Montenegrin forces liberated much of the Balkans from the Ottoman Empire to the so called Revival Process (or Regeneration Process) – the assimilation campaign against Bulgarian Turks undertaken by the Bulgarian Communist Party regime in the late 1980s.
Ataka leader Volen Siderov called upon the media to boycott the statements of the DPS party, and promised to appeal to all but DPS MPs as well as the President and the Ombudsman in order to table a petition to the Bulgarian Constitutional Court for the ban of the ethnic Turkish party. The nationalists argue that under Bulgaria's Constitution political parties based on religions or ethnicities are illegal.