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Bulgaria on Turkish referendum: ‘Only possible path to national consensus is compliance with basic democratic norms’

April 18, 2017April 19, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Turkey

Given the close results of the April 16 referendum in Turkey, the only possible path to national consensus is compliance

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Europe 

Turkish referendum too close to call

April 13, 2017 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Voters in Turkey will consider a constitutional referendum Sunday on whether to transform their government from the current parliamentary system

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A controversial draft bill that would have curtailed the voting rights of Bulgarians abroad has been withdrawn and the official

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to begin accepting refugees from Turkey, caretaker cabinet decides – report

March 30, 2017March 31, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgaria will begin accepting refugees from Turkey, the caretaker cabinet agreed in a decision not made public, a report on

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Bulgaria 

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 

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 

Bottlenecks at polling stations in Turkey in Bulgaria’s March 26 parliamentary elections

March 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Turkey

By the afternoon of March 26, voting in Turkey in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections was much lower than in the 2016

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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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