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Bulgarian prosecutors probe nationalists’ pre-election protests at Turkish border

March 30, 2017March 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Acting on numerous complaints, the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office has begun an investigation into the “blockade” of the Turkish border mounted

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Bulgaria 

Turkey has not quite gone away as an issue in Bulgarian politics

March 28, 2017March 29, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Ahmed Dogan, Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

The March 2017 parliamentary elections in Bulgaria may be over, but the issue of Turkey’s role in Bulgarian domestic politics

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Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections: The winners and losers

March 27, 2017March 28, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Lyutvi Mestan, Volen Siderov

If anyone may fairly be said to have lost Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections, Zlatko Zdravkov would be an appropriate

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian election results leave Movements for Rights and Freedoms with little to say

March 26, 2017March 27, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

It may be that the election night news conference of second-ranked Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova was something of

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Bulgaria 

Police remove barricades at Turkish-Bulgarian border

March 24, 2017 Deutsche Welle Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Amid growing tension between Sofia and Ankara, Bulgarian police on Friday removed barricades protesters had erected at at least two

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Bulgaria 

The buses from Bursa: Bulgarians voting, and visiting relatives

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Ahmed Dogan, Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

In a report on the bussing-in of voters from Turkey to Bulgaria for the country’s March 26 elections, public broadcaster

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian voters from Turkey divert via Greece as ‘patriots’ again protest at Turkish border

March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2017, Greece, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Bulgarian passport-holders coming into the country to vote in the March 26 elections would now be coming via Greece instead

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev responds to Erdoğan: ‘Bulgaria does not give or accept lessons on democracy’

March 23, 2017March 24, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Roumen Radev, Turkey

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has responded to a call by his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the country to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2017: Daily roundup, March 23

March 23, 2017March 24, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey, Volen Siderov

With just a day left to campaigning ahead of Bulgaria’s March 26 parliamentary elections, political party leaders were making their

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