Prosecutors suspend Bulgarian DOST leader’s driving licence
The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Kurdzhali has temporary withdrawn the driving licence of Lyutvi Mestan, who was involved in a
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Lyutvi Mestan
Leader of Bulgaria’s DOST party out on 10 000 leva bail after collision in which child died
Lyutvi Mestan, leader of Bulgaria’s extra-parliamentary DOST political party, has been released on bail of 10 000 leva (about 5000
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Bulgarian DOST party leader named as driver in collision in which baby died
The leader of Bulgarian minority extra-parliamentary party DOST, Lyutvi Mestan, has been named as the driver of one of the
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Bulgaria’s MRF, other ethnic Turkish parties commemorate victims of communist-era ‘Revival Process’
Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms party and other parties with mainly ethnic Turkish electorates are holding traditional commemorations of
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Bulgarian Prosecutor-General moves against foundation allegedly linked to Mestan’s DOST party
Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov had lodged an application in the district court in the southern city of Kurdhzali to shut
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Turkey appoints new ambassador to Bulgaria, sending Gökçe to Guatemala – reports
The Turkish foreign ministry is to appoint career diplomat Hasan Ulusoy as Ankara’s ambassador in Sofia, and is sending the
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Bulgarian nationalist leader calls for expulsion of Turkish ambassador, recall of Bulgaria’s ambassador in Ankara
Valeri Simeonov, co-leader of the nationalist United Patriots that is poised to become a partner in GERB party leader Boiko Borissov’s
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Turkish ambassador: Ankara does not interfere in the internal affairs of Bulgaria
Turkey does not interfere in and influence the internal affairs of any country, including Bulgaria, Ankara’s ambassador in Sofia Süleyman
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Bulgarian caretaker Justice Minister fires official over unconstitutional draft bill limiting voting rights abroad
A controversial draft bill that would have curtailed the voting rights of Bulgarians abroad has been withdrawn and the official
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