So the politician is the leader of the minority Turkish/Muslims party? Correct?
Correct. The funny thing is that the Bulgarian constitution forbids having a political party based on a ethnicity and yet that is exactly the party that Dogan is the head of. Of course, it is one of the multiple creations of the communists and their State Security. That is how they have kept control of the country for the whole period after the fall of communism except for a brief interruption between 1997 and 2001. The reports now are that the attacker is also an ethnic Turk, and that Dogan has stepped down and handed over the leadership to his second in command.