Turkmenistan Students Barred from Studying in Bulgaria

Society » EDUCATION | October 7, 2009, Wednesday // 11:22
Turkmenistan Students Barred from Studying in Bulgaria: Turkmenistan Students Barred from Studying in Bulgaria Turkmen students have been stopped from traveling to study at the American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad. Photo by ucl.ac.uk

Students from Turkmenitsan who were set to study in the American University in Bulgaria’s Blagoevgrad have been denied permission to leave their country.

After being barred from leaving to study at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the students were booked on a flight from Ashgabat to Istanbul and then on to Bulgaria but border guards informed them that they had been ‘blacklisted’.

A Turkmen opposition party website Chrono-tm.org reported that the students are "shocked and bewildered."

The US embassy in Ashgabat issued a statement on October 5 expressing dismay over the Turkmen government actions. The embassy indicated that it had high-level assurances the students would be able to continue their studies abroad. The Turkmen government has not elaborated on why students studying in American Universities abroad are no longer allowed to do so.

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Tags: American University in Bulgaria, Turkmensitan, Turkmen students, American University of Central Asia, Istanbul, Bishkek, Ashgabat airport

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