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Bulgaria’s security agency bars two more Turkish citizens as threat to national security

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Turkey

Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security has ordered the expulsion of a Turkish citizen and declared another persona non grata

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2017 elections: Reports received of voters being bussed in from Turkey – Deputy PM

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Bulgaria’s caretaker government has received reports of buses being organised to bring voters in from Turkey for the March 26

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria caretaker minister says will propose scrapping Sofia Airport concession

March 21, 2017March 23, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s caretaker Transport Minister Hristo Alexiev said on March 21 that he would make a formal proposal asking the caretaker

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Bulgaria 

Police presence stepped up as Bulgarian nationalists vow more Turkish border blockades over ‘electoral tourism’

March 21, 2017March 22, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Turkey

The police presence at Bulgaria’s border crossings with Turkey has been stepped up, the Interior Ministry said on March 21,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President meets intelligence and security chiefs, Prosecutor-General over worsening relations with Turkey

March 20, 2017March 21, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Roumen Radev, Turkey

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev called a special meeting on the afternoon of March 20 with several senior

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Bulgaria 

Judge in Bulgaria’s Varna charged with defeating the ends of justice

March 20, 2017March 21, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary, Varna

The anti-corruption special unit has lodged charges against a Varna District Court judge of defeating the ends of justice, Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Alitalia’s Sofia – Rome flights on March 20 cancelled because of Italian air traffic controllers’ strike

March 20, 2017March 20, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

A strike by some Italian air traffic controllers’ unions on March 20 has resulted in the cancellation of the March

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev: Turkey’s interference in our elections is absolutely unacceptable

March 18, 2017March 20, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Roumen Radev, Turkey

It is a fact that Turkey is interfering in Bulgaria’s March parliamentary elections and this is absolutely unacceptable, head of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria declares Turkish citizen threat to national security, imposes five-year entry ban

March 17, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Turkey

Bulgaria has expelled a Turkish citizen after the State Agency for National Security (SANS) declared the individual a threat to

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