Ahmed Doğan
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Ahmed Demir Doğan (Bulgarian: Ахмед Демир Доган, Ahmed Demir Dogan) (born March 29, 1954 in Pchelarovo, Dobrich Province, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian politician of Turkish ethnicity. He leads the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), a liberal political party aimed at protecting the rights of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria.
Doğan graduated from Sofia University with a degree in philosophy. In the early 1980s he was also involved in agitation and illegal underground activities for restoration and protection of rights of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria. He was arrested in 1987 and sentenced to ten years in prison by the Varna District Court for terrorist activities within the Turkish National Freedom Movement, but pardoned on 22 December 1989 to found the DPS in 1990.
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