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Mestan’s DOST party backs GERB’s Tsacheva in Bulgarian presidential elections

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Lyutvi Mestan

Bulgarian minority party DOST, the breakaway from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms led by former MRF leader Lyutvi Mestan,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Supreme Court registers former MRF leader Mestan’s DOST party

July 29, 2016August 1, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Lyutvi Mestan

Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation, in a ruling on July 29, consented to the official registration of former Movement for

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Bulgaria 

Sofia court declines registration of Mestan’s DOST party

July 8, 2016July 11, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Lyutvi Mestan

Sofia City Court has turned down an application to register former Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) leader Lyutvi Mestan’s

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Bulgaria 

Poll: New leader boosts support for Bulgarian Socialist Party

June 8, 2016June 9, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Lyutvi Mestan, Volen Siderov

The election of Kornelia Ninova as the new leader of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party has seen support for that

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Bulgaria 

Dogan’s MRF party elects Karadaya to post of leader

April 24, 2016April 25, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Ahmed Dogan, Lyutvi Mestan

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms’ national conference unanimously elected, as expected, MP and hitherto triumvirate leadership member Mustafa Karadaya

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Bulgaria 

Karadaya appears set to be named leader of Bulgaria’s MRF

April 24, 2016April 25, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Ahmed Dogan, Lyutvi Mestan

The national conference of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms appears set to elect one of its current acting co-chairpersons,

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Bulgaria 

Turkey envoys guests at founding congress of Mestan’s DOST party

April 10, 2016April 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

The DOST party founded by ousted Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) leader Lyutvi Mestan held its inaugural conference in

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Bulgaria 

Borissov’s GERB still strongest party, but sheds support – poll

April 4, 2016April 5, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Lyutvi Mestan, Volen Siderov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party remains by far the country’s strongest, but has lost support over the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM joins controversy over parliamentary committee on interference by Russia and Turkey in politics

February 28, 2016March 1, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Lyutvi Mestan, Russia, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has joined the controversy over Parliament’s decision to set up an ad hoc committee to

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