Foreign Ministry

Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry considers the opening of three new border crossing points on the border with Macedonia a very important initiative, according to Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov.

Nine officials from Turkey's Foreign Ministry resigned before the Feb. 10 deadline in order to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for June 7.

The Bulgarian government is set on discussing the tensions regarding Ukrainian minorities, including the increased army mobilization of Bulgarian nationals with Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin during his upcoming visit.

The position has also been expressed before the Ukrainian Ambassador to Sofia Mykola Baltazhy, a press release from Tuesday revealed.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will visit Berlin Tuesday and Moscow Wednesday to hold talks with his German and Russian counterparts at a time when European governments are concerned that the debt-wracked nation is cozying up to the Kremlin.

Diplomats from the Foreign Ministry appear to be eager to play on the political stage, as a number are expected to submit their resignations ahead of the Feb 10 deadline

Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed that it has hacked scores of e-mail accounts, including the accounts of the Turkish Presidency, Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry and Air Forces.

Hours after meeting Ukraine's head of state Petro Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande are set to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

A deputy leader of the main opposition party has questioned the testimony of a suspect in the case over the wiretapping of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, who said Erdo?an sent him to Libya to meet Moammar Gadhafi several times in private. 

A deputy leader of the main opposition party has questioned the testimony of a suspect in the case over the wiretapping of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, who said Erdo?an sent him to Libya to meet Moammar Gadhafi several times in private. 

Some 5 million people in Turkey were listened in on in 2012, Interior Minister Efkan Ala has stated, referring to a calculation that around 250,000 people who were wiretapped spoke to at least 20 people on the phone. He blamed officers affiliated with the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen for the scandal.