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	Movement for Rights and Freedoms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Движение за права и свободи, Dviženie za Prava i Svobodi) is a centrist ethnic political party in Bulgaria, based in the Turkish minority.
		Although the MRF has been part of Bulgarian political life since 1990, it is still considered by nationalists, such as the far-right National Union Attack, to be anti-constitutional since it is mainly an ethnic-based organization.
		The MRF was severely criticized by Bulgarian nationalist party Attack as well as mainstream rightwing parties such as Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria and the Union of Democratic Forces and even by MRF coalition partners of the National Movement Simeon II to have manipulated the vote in the June 2005 elections at places.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Movement_for_Rights_and_Freedoms (685 words)

	Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Section 10: rights on arrest or detention, including the right to retain a lawyer and to be informed of that right.
		The Bill of Rights did not contain all of the rights which are now included in the Charter, omitting, for instance, the right to vote and freedom of movement within Canada.
		This is tied to the generous interpretation of rights, as the purpose of the Charter provisions is assumed to be to increase rights and freedoms of people in a variety of circumstances, at the expense of the government powers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms (5340 words)

	The Movement for Rights and Freedoms. Turk Flagman of Bulgarian Post-Totalitarian Liberalism (in English)
		MRF had to detect an appropriate matrix of combination between minorities' zeal towards reaching European standards in the field of human rights and preventing the same ethnic groups from the radical reaction of the majority forced to rebuild its State on democratic pluralistic principles.
		MRF strategic plans and tactical means for their realization that were refracted by the specificity of atrophied transition environment and in-group ethnic background compelled the leadership to declare Liberal ideological orientation of the political organization.
		MRF and especially A. Dogan made very serious attempts to theorize the way in which the minorities may be involved in the different levels of the State administration.
	www.members.tripod.com /crcs0/mrfvlad.html (4747 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Turks in Bulgaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The MRF's leader Akhmed Dogan (the Bulgarian abbreviation for the MRF is DPS) protests before the President of Bulgaria Zhelyu Zhelev against the regional governor of Kurdzhali "who deliberately delayed the session" of the newly elected municipal council.
		Leaders of the ethnic Turks' Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) familiarize diplomats from embassies of Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, Kuwait, Egypt and Libya with their estimate of the elections in the Kurdzhali municipality, which were annulled on 5th February.
		According to the MRF, unemployment in Muslim areas was as high as 60-70 percent in some areas, compared to the national average of 20 percent, and she blamed the government for "not having assured investment in our regions" (the northeast, south, and southeast).
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=35501 (6967 words)

	Bulgaria
		The Government undertook to respect the rights of individuals and groups to establish freely their own political parties or other political organizations; however, there are constitutional and statutory regulations that restrict the right of association and limit meaningful participation in the political process.
		Human rights monitors were sharply critical of the serious deficiencies in government-run institutions for children, including orphanages, educational boarding schools (reform schools), facilities for the mentally handicapped, and shelters for homeless children.
		Human rights observers reported that in many localities, contrary to the law, a child could be held in such a facility on the basis of a police referral for months before the local commission convened to make a decision on the case.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18358.htm (15143 words)

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		The Recognition of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) as a Legitimate Party A year after the elections, when the parliament ratified the new Constitution in July 1991, the MRF faced a legitimacy crisis because of the explicit Constitutional ban on the formation of political parties along ethnic lines.
		MRF is against the isolation and separation of the minorities, but rather for their integration in the civil society, while preserving their ethno-cultural identity.
		The rapid restoration of their minority rights, the registration of the ethnically based MRF as a legitimate party, and its active participation in the Parliament greatly contributed to a peaceful resolution of ethnic tensions between the Bulgarians and the Turks, the building block of the Bulgarian ethnic model.
	home.comcast.net /~rossen47/savingbulgarianjews/BulgarianEthnicModel.doc (9957 words)

	Bulgarian Ethnic Model. A Pragmatical National Version of the Multiethnic Dialog /Part III. (in English)
		The increased verbal tension between UDF and MRF culminated in the instinctive statement of Ivan Kostov that "MRF is malediction for Bulgaria".
		MRF claims that BEM is its own historical contribution (including the personal theorization of Ahmed Dogan) and as political pattern it obtained the appropriate international recognition.
		MRF enriched this field of the minorities' protection with innovative proposals by constructing a wide-range of networks of alternative programs on both theoretical and practical sides.
	www.members.tripod.com /crcs0/lgivl1-2.html (1581 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Government has undertaken to respect the rights of individuals and groups to establish freely their own political parties or other political organizations; however, there are constitutional and statutory regulations that restrict the right of association and limit meaningful participation in the political process.
		Human rights groups also have protested the cancellation of residence status of several persons on undisclosed national security grounds, alleging that the action was a pretext for religious discrimination.
		Human rights monitors reported that in many localities, contrary to the law, a child may be held in such a facility for months on the basis of a police referral before the local commission convenes to make a decision on the case.
	www.usembassy.bg /documents/hrbulgaria.html (15967 words)

	Bulgaria - The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bulgaria - The Movement for Rights and Freedoms
		With 120,000 members, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) was the fourth largest political organization in Bulgaria in 1991, but it occupied a special place in the political process.
		The leader of the movement, Ahmed Dogan, was imprisoned in 1986 for opposition to the Zhivkov policy of assimilating ethnic Turks.
	countrystudies.us /bulgaria/52.htm (265 words)

	HSW
		The court claimed that the Rights and Freedoms Party was unconstitutional because it would "pursue a political division of the citizens of this country into communities on an ethnic, religious and language basis." The Supreme Court upheld the City Court's decision on August 28.
		Although the MRF ran in the June 1990 elections as a "movement," fears were expressed that this constitutional provision could be interpreted to prevent it from running in future elections.
		Meanwhile, those responsible for serious violations of human rights, such as the forced assimilation of ethnic Turks during 1984 and 1985, and the government's violent suppression of peaceful demonstrations by ethnic Turks in 1989, are not being prosecuted.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1992/WR92/HSW-02.htm (2236 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Europe & Central Asia: Bulgaria
		The NDSV formed a coalition government with the predominantly Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Dvishenie za Prava i Svobody, DPS).
		Freedom of expression came under renewed threat, with the attempted murder of a journalist in December 2000, problematic criminal defamation laws, and government interference at the state radio, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).
		There were no reports of government interference in the work of human rights organizations, but two groups representing Roma and Macedonians reported harassment and interference with public education efforts related to minority participation in the March national census.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k2/europe6.html (1409 words)

	Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		January 1990: The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) was founded to represent the country's ethnic Turkish minority.
		1 December 1995: The MRF's leader Akhmed Dogan (the Bulgarian abbreviation for the MRF is DPS) protests before the President of Bulgaria Zhelyu Zhelev against the regional governor of Kurdzhali "who deliberately delayed the session" of the newly elected municipal council.
		16 February 1996: Leaders of the ethnic Turks' Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) familiarize diplomats from embassies of Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, Kuwait, Egypt and Libya with their estimate of the elections in the Kurdzhali municipality, which were annulled on 5th February.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/bulturkchro.htm (7340 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Bulgarian ex-King tipped for PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ahmed Dogan of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms
		Late on Wednesday, representatives of his movement said they would form a coalition government with the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), which has 21 parliamentary seats.
		MRF leader Ahmed Dogan said he would be "very happy" if Simeon would accept the post of prime minister.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1423477.stm (461 words)

	News from Bulgaria / Feb 19, 96
		At a meeting on Wednesday with diplomats from Lebanon, Morocco, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt and Libya, Dogan urged that the issue of human rights in Bulgaria should not be dropped from the agenda of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
		The MRF is in favour of unity and democracy, as it has proved many times; it will stand up for these principles in the future because it defends the rights and freedoms of an ethnic community which is part of this nation, it was said at the rally.
		Sofia, February 18 (BTA) "MRF Wants to Overthrow the Cabinet" runs a front-page headline in "Troud" which covers Saturday's rally staged by the ethnic Turks' Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) in the southern Bulgarian town of Kurdjali which has a large Turkish population.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/bta/1996/96-02-19.bta.html (2048 words)

	Reading Room - Rights, freedoms, and movements - Features news
		The word "party" was a dirty word, and when I heard about the "movement" MRF and I liked its ideas, the wish to protect everyone's individual rights irrespective of sex, religion or ethnicity.
		Today MRF is a national party with more than 52 000 members, formed originally by people who were the subject of an attempted assimilation during communist times.
		From this point of view the processes in the right were to have been expected, since the UDF was a union made up of 16 organisations.
	www.sofiaecho.com /art.php?id=8735&catid=29 (2173 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		And to make matters worse for the premier, some leading members of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), which is the NDSV's junior coalition partner, have used the looming no-confidence vote to demand a government reshuffle.
		The NDSV itself was and is a loose conglomeration of politicians who had left their previous parties to the left and right of the political center, economic lobby groups, and well-known personalities such as actors.
		Despite its short existence, and its illusory campaign promises, the NDSV won the June 2001 parliamentary elections -- mainly thanks to voters' discontent with the established political parties and their hopes that the former king was untouched by the evils of corruption and political infighting.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2003/06/5-NOT/not-030603.asp (936 words)

	Issue 3 - Newsletters
		Liberal International member parties, King Simeon Movement (NMSS) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) had mixed election results as LI Bureau Member Dzhevdet Chakarov held on to his seat.
		The MRF increased substantially their share of the vote from 7.1% to 12.5%, their best election result ever.
		The MRF is the only party that has stated before the elections it would consider forming a coalition with them, but both fall short of a majority.
	www.liberal-international.org /newsletter.asp?ia_id=1179 (956 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Q&A: Bulgaria votes
		In June 2001 the Simeon II National Movement, led by former king Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha, handed the ruling right-wing Union of Democratic Forces a heavy defeat.
		The Simeon II National Movement (SND) is the senior partner in the ruling coalition.
		The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) represents Bulgaria's 800,000 Muslims, mainly ethnic Turks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/4619093.stm (609 words)

	Bulgaria: NATO, EU membership top goals of new government - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is composed of a cabinet led by the country's former king that includes technocrats and Western-educated economic specialists as well as ethnic Turks and socialists.
		A coalition accord with the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms also has given Saxe-Coburg-Gotha support from another 21 deputies.
		Under the coalition agreement of the new government, the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms has taken two senior cabinet posts.
	www.eubusiness.com /Bulgaria/53730 (1002 words)

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		A right-wing coalition, the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), held 51, and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), representing Bulgaria's 800,000 Muslims, mainly ethnic Turks, won 12 seats.
		The outgoing coalition government, composed of the NMSS and the MRF, had taken office promising to improve the country's economy and bring it to the level of Member States of the European Union (EU).
		On 15 August 2005, the Parliament approved a new government formed by the Coalition for Bulgaria, the National Movement Simeon II (NMSS) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2045_E.htm (715 words)

	Politics of Bulgaria
		The country's first fully democratic parliamentary elections, in November 1991, ushered in another coalition government, which was led by the pro-reform Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) in partnership with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF).
		This coalition collapsed in late 1992, however, and was succeeded by a technocratic team, put forward by the MRF, which governed at the sufferance of the BSP for 2 years.
		The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) formed the Alliance for National Salvation with several smaller parties, taking 19 seats.
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Bulgaria.html (977 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Bulgaria Hit by New Turmoil on Forming Government
		The National Movement for Simeon II (NMS) forced the Socialists to go for a minority cabinet by refusing to join a coalition.
		The minority cabinet plan by the Socialists and the MRF was defeated on two points- its structure and the individual names on the government list.
		But MRF leader Ahmed Dogan has said he would not support such a move.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-7-27/30686.html (646 words)

	Webfactory Bulgaria Web Site Design And Development Company News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During a meeting yesterday, the leaders of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), the National Movement Simeon II (NMSII) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) agreed upon the final composition of a draft Cabinet.
		The various ministries would be distributed between the BSP, NMSII and MRF in the ratio 8:5:3 respectively.
		Constitutional court can discontinue President Georgi Purvanov's term if he hands the MRF a Cabinet-formation mandate, as the movement was coalition partner of the BSP when the first mandate was given.
	www.webfactorybulgaria.com /news.php?newsid=308 (1349 words)

	The Centre for SouthEast European Studies
		Bulgaria will have a new government and the Socialist party and its coalition partners, the Turks' Movement for Rights and Freedoms will participate in it, he added.
		The Socialist Party and its coalition partner, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, officially admitted Thursday failure to form a minority government.
		Thus, Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov is expected to hand the cabinet formation mandate to Saxe-Coburg's Simeon II National Movement.
	www.csees.net /?page=news&news_id=45403 (221 words)

	Bulgaria Construction Troops - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
		Although service in the Construction Troops satisfied military service requirements, these units were controlled by the Ministry of Construction, Architecture, and Public Services, and they received little or no military training.
		According to the chairman of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, these units typically drafted Turks and other ethnic minorities considered unsuitable for service in combat units because of linguistic barriers or perceived political unreliability (see Turks, ch.
		2; The Movement for Rights and Freedoms, ch.
	www.photius.com /countries/bulgaria/national_security/bulgaria_national_security_construction_troops.html (388 words)

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