Turkish towns terminated twinning with 12 Bulgarian municipalities

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish towns terminated twinning with 12 Bulgarian municipalities, which recognized the actions of 1915 as Armenian Genocide. Turkish Ministry of Interior wrote a circular letter for the municipalities to be taken out of the list for twinning towns, Focus News informs.



On the basis of a text of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Interior sent a letter to other towns with orders not to establish relations of twinning with 12 Bulgarian towns or to terminate them if such have already been launched.



Three Turkish towns terminated twinning after it became clear their Bulgarian twin towns recognized Armenian genocide. These are - Bursa, Kurkklareli and Adapazara. They terminated twinning with Dobrich, Plovdiv and Shumen after the circular letter of July 18, 2008.