Bulgaria's PM: No Increased Migration from Turkey after Coup Attempt

Politics » DOMESTIC | July 17, 2016, Sunday // 10:33
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's PM: No Increased Migration from Turkey after Coup Attempt BGNES

There are no indications of an increased flow of migrants following the attempted coup in neighboring Turkey, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Saturday.

He added the government still had no information about Bulgarian nationals wounded during the events.

Earlier, Turkey closed checkpoints along the common border with Bulgaria in the aftermath of the coup, reopening them by noontime. Bulgaria for its part bolstered measures on its side of the frontier.

There has been intensive traffic both ways since Saturday afternoon, according to the Bulgarian National Radio.

Some of these are tourists going to or coming from their holidays.

Sofia has repeatedly called on its citizens to avoid traveling to Turkey.

Bulgaria has closely been following the past 24 hours' developments in Turkey due to its proximity, but also to the fact that several hundred thousand Bulgarian nationals live in the country.

The cabinet has made clear that Bulgaria and Turkey's intelligence services are closely working together at the moment.

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