{"id":33111,"date":"2011-05-04T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=33111"},"modified":"2011-05-04T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T06:43:02","slug":"bulgaria-to-recall-its-ambassador-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/05\/04\/bulgaria-to-recall-its-ambassador-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria to recall its ambassador in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bulgarian government official confirmed on Tuesday that Bulgaria\u2019s Ambassador to Turkey will be recalled soon for having once served as secret service agents for the nation\u2019s former communist governments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>13 of the country&#8217;s ambassadors have already returned pending dismissal for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Vessela Tcherneva said a further 22 ambassadors and permanent representatives will be recalled on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Novinite.com news agency reported on Tuesday that ambassadors from Bosnia, Greece, Romania, Georgia, Serbia, China, Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Belarus and Macedonia, the United Nations and UNESCO have already returned.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said ambassadors to Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Turkey and Japan will return in June.<\/p>\n<p>In December, a panel investigating Bulgaria&#8217;s communist-era police, published the names of 192 diplomats who had worked for the previous secret services, and parliament voted to ask Bulgaria&#8217;s president to remove 33 of them now serving as ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bulgarian government official confirmed on Tuesday that Bulgaria\u2019s Ambassador to Turkey will be recalled soon for having once served as secret service agents for the nation\u2019s former communist governments. &nbsp; 13 of the country&#8217;s ambassadors have already returned pending dismissal for the same reason. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Vessela Tcherneva said a further 22 ambassadors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":776961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[5414,1896,5413],"class_list":["post-33111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulgaria","tag-bulgarian-agents","tag-communism","tag-vessela-tcherneva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}