Bulgaria blackmailing Turkey and puts price on Turkey's EU membership

Bulgaria is threatening to block Turkey's application to join the European Union unless it pays out billions of euros in compensation for displaced people, in a case dating back to the days of the Ottoman Empire.
ons of euros in compensation for displaced people, in a case dating back to the days of the Ottoman Empire.
Bojidar Dimitrov a Bulgarian cabinet minister without portfolio who runs the country's Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, pressed the claim in remarks to the Bulgarian newspaper. "Turkey is surely able to pay this sum, after all, it's the 16th largest economic power in the world," he said, putting a total of $20 billion (€14 billion) on the settlement. "One of the three conditions of Turkey's full membership of the EU is solving the problem of the real estate of Thracian refugees."

For the complete report: EUobserver / Bulgaria puts price on Turkey's EU membership - by Andrew Rettman