Turkey faces pressure over alleged oil smuggling with IS group
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Wednesday that the fight against the Islamic State group and other extremist groups has
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Bulgarian cabinet approves funding reshuffle to improve land border security
Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet has approved a reshuffle of funding to pay for three steps to improve land border security, the
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US confirms airstrikes near Turkey – Syria border
U.S.-led airstrikes hit near a key Syrian border town for a second day, as Kurdish fighters defend the area from
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Turkish MPs to vote on military action against ‘Islamic State’
Turkey has deployed tanks and armored vehicles to reinforce its border with Syria as the Turkish parliament prepares to authorize
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Bulgarian populist BWC party blocks Turkish border
Populist party Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC), led by former talk show host Nikolai Barekov, blocked the country’s three border checkpoints
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Turkish tanks take up positions at the Syrian border
The situation at Turkey’s border with Syria is tense, with the Jihadists continuing their advance to the town of Kobani. Dozens
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Bulgaria’s 7M leva fence at the Turkish border is ‘useless’ – and temporary
The controversial fence built along 30km of the Turkish border at the orders of the now-departed Bulgarian Socialist Party government
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Bulgaria’s election commission denies there are unlawful polling stations in Turkey
In the latest twist in the controversy about polling stations in Turkey planned for Bulgaria’s October 5 2014 early parliamentary
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130 000 Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey as IS nears border
More than 130,000 refugees have flooded into Turkey from Syria in the past few days, as the jihadist group Islamic
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