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Turkey hits back at Bulgaria over elections controversy

March 9, 2017March 11, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Turkey does not interfere in the internal affairs of any state, the foreign ministry in Ankara said in response to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President: More pragmatism needed in work of Southeast Europe Cooperation Process

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Roumen Radev, Serbia, Turkey

At a meeting with ambassadors from seven Balkan countries in Sofia on March 8, Bulgarian head of state President Roumen

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria summons Turkish ambassador over Ankara’s interference in parliamentary elections

March 7, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Ahmed Dogan, Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Turkey’s ambassador in Sofia Süleyman Gökçe was summoned to Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry on March 7 after Turkish cabinet minister Mehmet

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Bulgaria 

Sofia – Istanbul rail link set to return as reconstruction on Turkish side completed

February 20, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

The railway link between Bulgaria’s capital Sofia and Turkey’s largest city Istanbul is set to return after the completion of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian carriers irked by repeated delays at border checkpoint with Turkey

February 6, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgaria’s union of international carriers has lashed out at the country’s authorities over repeated long delays at the Kapitan Andreevo

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Europe 

Turkey, Greece at odds as Athens denies Turkish coup extradition request

January 27, 2017March 9, 2017 Henry Ridgwell of VOANews Greece, Turkey

Turkey has threatened to cancel a migrant readmission deal with Greece after Greece’s Supreme Court rejected a request from Turkey

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Bulgaria 

Frozen Danube causes traffic problems at Bulgaria’s checkpoints at Turkish border

January 13, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Queues of lorries stretching several kilometres built up at two of Bulgaria’s checkpoints at the Turkish border on January 13

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Europe 

Officials: Turkey close to identifying gunman in New Year’s attack

January 3, 2017March 9, 2017 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Turkish authorities say they are close to identifying the gunman being sought in connection with the New Year’s attack on

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Perspectives 

An envoy, an assassin and a mystery in the heart of Ankara

December 23, 2016March 9, 2017 Asli Aydintasbas of the ECFR Russia, Turkey

Coming at the tail end of an annus horriblis in global affairs, the assassination of the Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov

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