Turkish party

No doubt, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has an absolutely legitimate point when he says that the Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) is a terrorist organization. His complaint is also perfectly legitimate that a pro-Kurdish political party with parliamentary seats equal to that of a nationalist Turkish party meticulously refrains from saying what the PKK is.

A Turkish NGO has called for more women to stand for parliament in the upcoming general election, stating that "equal representation is a precondition of democracy."

Unidentified vandals scrawled ?death to Turks? on the entrance of a religious affairs office in southwestern Bulgaria late on Feb. 22.

The slogan was marked on the mufti building in the city of Blagoevgrad.

The state prosecution has dropped charges of attempted murder against the man who attacked the DPS party's honorary chair Ahmed Dogan in 2013.

Oktay Enimehdemov was sentenced in February to three-and-a-half years of imprisonment after found guilty of death threat, but was acquitted of attempted murder. The Sofia Appellate Court in October upheld the sentence.

People who committed oppression and persecution against Bulgaria's Turks and Muslims during the pre-1990 communist regime remain unpunished, even a quarter of a century on, according to Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov.

Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Berbatov reacted critically to the incident involving the use of his image for political campaigning.

Flyers with the image of Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Berbatov and the number 29 ticked in a circle have been circulating the southern city of Svilengrad over the past days.

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) and ultra-nationalist Ataka are the parties with most solid electoral base for the upcoming European Elections.

Oktay Enimehmedov, who attacked the honorary lifetime Chairman of DPS Ahmed Dogan in 2013, will seek to enter politics.

The 25-year-old who on January 19 last year pointed a gun at Dogan while he was delivering his resignation speech at a party conference, was firm he had taught the ethnic Turkish party's founder he was "not that intangible".