Announcement
13 May 2019 News
On instructions from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva, the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey will be summoned to the MFA on Monday to provide an explanation of his statement made today, calling upon the Bulgarian Government to promote the learning of Turkish as a foreign language.
The Ambassador’s words are disturbing as the Bulgarian Government has never impeded the freedom of learning any foreign language. Turkish can be studied in school just as freely as English, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Romanian, Russian and Hebrew.
In this context we underscore that such a statement by an ambassador of a neighboring partner country like Turkey does not correspond to the expectations of the Republic of Bulgaria about how our good-neighborly and friendly relations should develop in the future.