Bulgaria expels Bourgas-based Turkish diplomat – reports
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said on February 21 2016 that it would not comment on media reports that Sofia had asked
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Bulgarian Parliament sets up committee to probe Russian, Turkish interference in domestic politics
Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted by a large majority on February 19 2016 to accept a proposal to set up a
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Turkey PM: Ankara bomber Syrian with Kurdish links
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says a Syrian man with links to Kurdish militia groups was responsible for a car
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Bulgarian President sends condolences to Erdoğan after fatal bomb blast in Ankara
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has sent condolences to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after the February
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Erdogan continues effort to hold on to power in Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s aspiration to change Turkey’s parliamentary system of government to an executive presidency is being blamed for the
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Blast rocks Turkey’s capital, at least 28 killed
Turkish officials say at least 28 people have been killed and 61 others wounded in a car bomb explosion in
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Proposal for Bulgarian Parliament to probe claims of Russian and Turkish interference in domestic politics
MPs from several political parties have signed a petition by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) calling for the
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Migrant crisis deepens Europe’s East-West divide
The leaders of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia gathered around a cake this week in Prague, celebrating the
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Bulgaria files terrorism charges against three Syrians who tried to cross into Turkey, heading to join ‘Islamic State’
Bulgarian Border Police arrested three Syrians trying to cross illegally into Turkey, allegedly intending to join Daesh, the terrorist self-proclaimed
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