Bulgarian President claims ‘many disturbing facts’ about Turkish border fence
Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev conjured up new controversy around himself by alleging on April 21 that there
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Turkey
Europe fears Turkey’s Erdogan will tear up migration deal
The crowd of diehard supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cheered at a referendum-eve rally in the Umraniye district
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Bulgaria on Turkish referendum: ‘Only possible path to national consensus is compliance with basic democratic norms’
Given the close results of the April 16 referendum in Turkey, the only possible path to national consensus is compliance
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Turkish referendum too close to call
Voters in Turkey will consider a constitutional referendum Sunday on whether to transform their government from the current parliamentary system
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Bulgarian caretaker Justice Minister fires official over unconstitutional draft bill limiting voting rights abroad
A controversial draft bill that would have curtailed the voting rights of Bulgarians abroad has been withdrawn and the official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 to begin accepting refugees from Turkey, caretaker cabinet decides – report
Bulgaria will begin accepting refugees from Turkey, the caretaker cabinet agreed in a decision not made public, a report on
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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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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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