Bulgarian prosecutors probe nationalists’ pre-election protests at Turkish border
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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Turkey has not quite gone away as an issue in Bulgarian politics
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
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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Bulgarian election results leave Movements for Rights and Freedoms with little to say
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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Police remove barricades at Turkish-Bulgarian border
Amid growing tension between Sofia and Ankara, Bulgarian police on Friday removed barricades protesters had erected at at least two
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The buses from Bursa: Bulgarians voting, and visiting relatives
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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Bulgarian voters from Turkey divert via Greece as ‘patriots’ again protest at Turkish border
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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Bulgarian President Radev responds to Erdoğan: ‘Bulgaria does not give or accept lessons on democracy’
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 elections 2017: Daily roundup, March 23
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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