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GERB leader Boyko Borissov votes in a polling station in the parliamentary elections in Sofia, Bulgaria, 2 April 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV

The outcome was a twist, as "We Continue the Change", led by former PM Kiril Petkov, came first place in Sunday's exit polls. 

A Turkish party leader on Aug. 21 urged legal action against three city mayors who were dismissed for using funds from their municipality for terrorism.     

US Ambassador to Bulgaria, Eric Rubin, visited the headquarters of the ethnic Turkish party "Movement for Rights and Freedoms", the party's press office said on 20th of September.

Rubin spoke yesterday with MRF Honorary Chair Ahmed Dogan and Chairman Moustafa Karadyi. The three have discussed topical political issues and the development of bilateral relations.

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) has come under fire for nominating two former members of far-right Ataka party for the upcoming general election in Bulgaria, Anadolu Agency writes.

A Turkish court in the northwestern border province of Edirne has passed an interim injunction ordering the seizure of 23 trucks belonging to the world-renowned Quebecois performance group Cirque Du Soleil after the circus' organizing firm decided to cancel an agreement with Turkish counterparts for a 40-series-show despite receiving advance payments. 

What is normal or abnormal? Who can decide? Does it depend on the conditions in a country or international conjecture? Does the mood of a president, a prime minister or a police officer help to make a decision on it?

Turkey has retaliated to Sofia's decision to declare a Turkish diplomat "persona non grata" by expelling Bulgarian consul Zornitsa Petrova Apostolova, causing both diplomats to leave their posts in the latest indication of heightened tensions between the neighbors following Turkey's rift with Russia over the downing of a Russian jet on Nov. 24, 2015. 

Many people were puzzled when Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavu?o?lu separately met in Istanbul with Andreas Kyprianou, the secretary-general of the Greek Cypriot Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL). Particularly, the very fact that the meeting came immediately after a landmark trilateral meeting of the two Cypriot leaders with the U.N.

The leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party has been ousted from his post and expelled from the party, apparently for declaring support for Turkey in its row with Moscow over the downing of a Russian warplane. 

The new Turkish party-state has proven to be no different to the "ancien regime" regarding its Kurdish policy, despite all the fanfare in the name of democratization, dialogue, negotiations and the so-called peace process. Now, the situation has returned to a fully-fledged "war on terror," military operations, long curfews, and suspension of the order of law in the name of the law of order.