Populist party Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC), led by former talk show host Nikolai Barekov, blocked the country’s three border checkpoints with Turkey on October 1 in protest against Turkish citizens with Bulgarian passports voting in Sunday’s early parliamentary elections.
BWC supporters wanted to prevent Turkish Bulgarian passport-holders crossing into Bulgaria for celebrations of the Muslim holy feast days of Kurban Bayram on October 4 to 7.
There are large numbers of Turkish citizens who formerly lived in Bulgaria as citizens before being driven out in a Bulgarian communist-era anti-Turkish campaign.
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