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Prosecutors suspend Bulgarian DOST leader’s driving licence

April 16, 2019April 17, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Lyutvi Mestan

The Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Kurdzhali has temporary withdrawn the driving licence of Lyutvi Mestan, who was involved in a

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Bulgaria 

Leader of Bulgaria’s DOST party out on 10 000 leva bail after collision in which child died

April 15, 2019April 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Lyutvi Mestan

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian DOST party leader named as driver in collision in which baby died

April 14, 2019April 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Lyutvi Mestan

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 

Bulgaria’s MRF, other ethnic Turkish parties commemorate victims of communist-era ‘Revival Process’

December 26, 2018December 27, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Ahmed Dogan, Lyutvi Mestan

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General moves against foundation allegedly linked to Mestan’s DOST party

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

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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Bulgaria 

Turkey appoints new ambassador to Bulgaria, sending Gökçe to Guatemala – reports

July 27, 2017July 30, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian nationalist leader calls for expulsion of Turkish ambassador, recall of Bulgaria’s ambassador in Ankara

April 26, 2017April 27, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey, Valeri Simeonov

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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Bulgaria 

Turkish ambassador: Ankara does not interfere in the internal affairs of Bulgaria

April 25, 2017April 26, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev, Turkey

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian caretaker Justice Minister fires official over unconstitutional draft bill limiting voting rights abroad

April 5, 2017April 7, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

A controversial draft bill that would have curtailed the voting rights of Bulgarians abroad has been withdrawn and the official

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