EUobserver reports that Bojidar Dimitrov, minister without portfolio who runs the country’s Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, has said that “one of the three conditions of Turkey’s full membership of the EU is solving the problem of the real estate of Thracian refugees”.
Additionally, Mr. Vesselin Ninov – spokesperson for the Bulgarian Council of Ministers, has said that Bulgaria has the option to block accession negotiations with Turkey over the issue.