President Erdoğan sent a video message to the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Congress

 

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, via a video message to the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) Congress, said Turkey will continue to stand by them on the basis of good neighborly relations, friendship, and alliance with Bulgaria.

“I believe that the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which has an important place in the Bulgarian democracy, will continue on its way with a more comprehensive and embracing understanding in the new period,” Erdogan said.

Bulgaria, a former Ottoman territory, has a large Turkish minority of about 10%, according to 2017 official census figures.

Centrist political party MRF’s members are predominantly Bulgarian Turks and the party won 26 seats in the Bulgarian parliament.