Turkey Ambassador Blames Bulgaria for Gas Link Delay
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The link is now envisaged to carry natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria starting 2018. Sofia is seeking to connect its gas grid to those of its neighbors but construction has been stalled for years on different grounds.
Commenting on a proposal backed by Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov under which the EU should invest in asylum seekers accommodation centers based in "third countries", Mr Gökçe refused to comment, pointing to his country's cooperation with all neigbors on dealing with the migrant influx from the Middle East.
The ambassador also voiced Turkey's insult caused by the decision of Bulgaria's Parliament to adopt a declaration which calls the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire "mass extermination", short of using the term "genocide". He described the term as not being "legally founded".
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