Ahmed Dogan Ahmed Dogan's place in the organization is controversial. Contrary to the narrative of Dogan's Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Sali Ahmed and Emin Hamdi, participants in the organization, claim that he was not among its founders, but joined later and rose through the ranks to head the organization only in 1986 due to his superior education. In 1992, former senior intelligence officer Radoslav Raykov stated that Dogan was embedded in the organization by the state, and that he was convicted along with its other leaders in order to build his legend to facilitate future intelligence work in Turkey. References People's Republic of Bulgaria Turkish diaspora in Europe 1980s in Bulgaria Islam in Bulgaria Pomaks Persecution of Balkan Turks