Bulgarian minister minister apologizes to Turks

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Bulgarian minister minister apologizes to Turks


TURKISH PRESS REVIEW / NOVEMBER 14   1998
 
BULGARIAN MINISTER APOLOGIZES TO TURKS
 
Flanked by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, Bulgarian Deputy Prime
Minister Veselin Metodiev apologized yesterday to the ethnic Turks in
the country for the cruel assimilation campaign that the former
Communist administration carried out against them in the second half
of the 1980s. Metodiev and Ecevit were visiting the southern Bulgarian
province of Kircaali. Earlier in the day, Ecevit said that the state
of Turco-Bulgarian relations has reached an examplary level in recent
years. Ecevit, on anofficial visit to Bulgaria, met with President
Stoyanov in Sofia, and speaking to reporters after the meeting said
that the talks were 'extremely positive and productive'. Ecevit also
stated that Turkey and Bulgaria have agreed to open another border
gate between the Turkish district of Hamzabeyli and the Bulgarian town
of Elhovo. 

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