Mesut Erdinch Rushid

Public record

Compiled from publications and official records as of 26.10.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.

Communist Party and State Security

• Agent „Керимов“ with the same patronymic and surname. A question to the MP. By Decision No 2-686 of 25.07.2016 (Dulovo municipality) the Dossier Commission declared that Erdinch Nezhdet Rushid, born on 27 January 1964 in Pravda, Silistra region, mayor of Dulovo municipality from 1991 to 1995 and a municipal councillor from 2003 to 2007, belonged to State Security. He was recruited on 15 November 1983 as an agent code-named „Керимов“ of State Security's Third Directorate and the Silistra regional directorate of the Interior Ministry; a handwritten, signed pledge of collaboration survives, and he was removed from the active register in 1985. According to the same decision, his affiliation was first declared by Decision No 283 of 16.11.2011 (Ministry of Agriculture and Food). Mesut Rushid was born in 1990 in Dulovo, and his patronymic is Erdinch. We found no source confirming or ruling out that the two are father and son. Question to Mesut Rushid: is Erdinch Nezhdet Rushid your father? — Dossier Commission, Decision No 2-686/2016, National Assembly, profile

Corruption and scandals

• The DPS. Actualno writes that Rushid was due to become an MP already after the 9 June 2024 election but gave up the seat, and that the decision was taken as one of the first signs of emerging tension in the DPS. According to the outlet, "in political circles it was then said that he is close to the party's former regional leader Sali Tabakov" (our translation); no source for that talk is named. — Actualno, 20.05.2026
• The APS. Mediapool writes that he "was in the ranks of the Doganists of the APS" (our translation) before appearing on the Progressive Bulgaria list in Varna. — Mediapool, 21.03.2026