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Wednesday, June 19, 2013 | 2:00 a.m.

Mayhem as man takes aim at leader of Bulgaria's Turkish Party

A man jumped on stage and pointed a gun at the leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party before security guards wrestled him to the ground during a televised conference on Saturday. Ahmed Dogan, the long-time leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms escaped unscathed, and it was not immediately clear why the attacker had targeted him at the party congress in downtown Sofia.