STORY: 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.<br/> <br />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.<br/> <br />Television footage showed the man jumping out of the audience and interrupting a speech by 58-year-old Dogan, who has led the party for almost a quarter of a century. Security guards were seen beating and kicking the attacker.<br/> <br />"Ahmed Dogan is in good health. Everything is under control," MRF official Ceyhan Ibryamov told journalists.<br/> <br />Police said they had arrested a 25-year-old man from the Black Sea town of Burgas who was also carrying two knives.<br/> <br />The liberal MRF party represents ethnic Turks and other Muslims who make up about 12 percent of Bulgaria's 7.3 million-strong population.<br/> <br />Dogan is seen as one of Balkan country's most influential political figures. The MRF was a junior partner in the previous Socialist-led cabinet.<br/> <br />In 1996, former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov was found shot dead near his home in Sofia, though attacks on politicians are rare.
