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Between August and October 24, there was an increase in attempts to illegally cross the border into Bulgaria from Turkey and Greece, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov told Parliament during Question […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan discussed the deepening of bilateral co-operation and Turkey’ ...
Mehmet Y., who has dual German-Turkish citizenship, has been under house arrest in a Bulgarian hotel since September 5. Officials in Ankara want him e ...
The number of trips abroad by Bulgarians in July 2018 was close to 10 per cent higher than in July 2017, with Turkey and Greece the top destinations o ...
Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev has revived the issue of compensation from Turkey for the descendants of ethnic Bulgarian refugees who fled Eastern Thrace amid the upheavals of […]
Turkey is a country in crisis, the Lira’s freefall being a case in point. President Erdogan needs to tackle this, but a diplomatic row with the US could force him […]
The Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project’s spokesperson Asli Esen said on Wednesday that its second line is over 45 percent completed. Esen told reporters that the giant construction vessel, […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, accompanied by Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova and her Turkish counterpart Fatih Dönmez, opened a new 20km stretch of pipeline near the border with Turkey on […]
The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said on July 24 that it had warned the authorities in Greece and Turkey of an expected dangerous increase of the levels of the waters of […]
The end of the state of emergency in place in Turkey since the coup attempt of 2016 is a welcome step, a spokesperson for the European Union’s foreign policy arm, […]
