Aylin Sekizkök

Türkiye's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hakan Fidan, initiated an official visit to Bulgaria, commencing on the evening of January 29 with a meeting featuring Mustafa Karadayı, the recently resigned chairman of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.

"There are about 70 large Turkish companies operating in Bulgaria, whose investments reach 2.5 billion euros, and 15,000 jobs have been created". This is what the ambassador of Turkey to Bulgaria, Aylin Sekizkök, said in Shumen to the participants in the forum "Opportunities for the labor market in North-Eastern Bulgaria", organized by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy.

The Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion Agency (BSMEPA) and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization in Turkey (KOSGEB) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

As part of a series of introductory meetings with representatives of different institutions in Bulgaria, at the beginning of her mandate, the new Turkish ambassador to Sofia Aylin Sekizkök met with Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte.

A diplomat couple, both of whom serve as Turkish ambassadors in neighboring Balkan countries, travel 250 kilometers frequently to see each other.

Turkish citizens living in Italy, UK, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia have begun casting their votes to participate in Turkey's general election that officially starts on June 7, boosting turnout with more votes from abroad.