Bulgaria’s printed media accentuates on Tuesday on the unacceptable election agitation of Turkey’s Minister of Labor and Social Security Mehmet Müezzinoğlu. Ankara openly called on the Bulgarian immigrants in Turkey to vote for Lutvi Mestan’s party, Sega daily writes on its first page. Less than twenty days before the early Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria Turkey has again interfered in Bulgaria’s policy and demonstrated its support towards the former leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms Lutvi Mestan. Turkey’s Social MinisterSecurity Mehmet Müezzinoğlu called on the Bulgarian immigrants living in Turkey to participate actively at the forthcoming early Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria and named the coalition those people should vote for-DOST Alliance headed by Mestan and Orhan Ismailov, Sega newspaper further informs. “Turkish Minister agitates Bulgarian immigrants to vote for DOST”, Trud daily writes on its first pages on March 7. The newspaper accentuates on Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu’s words during his meeting with representatives of Bulgarian immigrants in Istanbul. “All people with voting rights must my all means go to the polling stations. Each vote is of great importance. We, the citizens of the Republic of Turkey must guarantee DOST Alliance good election results in the name of a better future of the Bulgarian Turks living in that country”, Trud further quotes Minister Müezzinoğlu.
Minister Müezzinoğlu also commented the Turkish citizenship topic and announced that the cabinet in Ankara would alleviate the stay of Bulgarian citizens of Turkish origin in that country by extending the validity of their visas to five years which would allow them to receive Turkish citizenship after the expiration of their visas, Standart daily informs on Tuesday. Turkish Minister agitates for DOST, reformists and patriots protest against that, Dnevnik daily writes on its first pages. The newspaper accentuates on the responses of Bulgarian political parties against the flagrant statement of Turkey’s Social Minister and quotes the official stand of the Reformist Bloc that reads: “We are highly concerned with the fact that a member of the Turkish cabinet has persuaded the Bulgarian immigrants in Turley to vote for a given political party. We believe that this was an unacceptable interference in Bulgaria’s internal affairs”. VMRO leader Krasimir Karakachanov also described the act of Turkey’s Social Minister as “unacceptable interference of Turkey in Bulgaria’s home affairs.” Krasimir Karakachanov also protested against the appearance of Turkey’s Ambassador to Sofia at pre-election video of DOST Alliance. “This was both a violation of the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations and an impudent provocation”, Dnevnik daily quotes Krasimir Karakachanov.
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