Bulgarian sentenced for pistol attack on Turk party leader

An unidentified man (R) attacks Ahmed Dogan, leader of Bulgaria's Movement for Rights and Freedom (MRF) party, as he delivers his speech during his party's annual conference at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia January 19, 2013. REUTERS/Tsvetelina Belutova

SOFIA (Reuters) - A 26-year-old Bulgarian was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for pointing a pistol at the head of a senior ethnic Turkish party member on stage at a party congress a year ago.

Ahmed Dogan, then leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) party, part of Sofia's governing coalition, escaped unhurt when Oktay Enimehmedov, an ethnic Turk from the Black Sea town of Burgas, menaced him in January 2013.