Culture and Education: a Bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye
![BTA Director General: Agency's Archives Include Messages on Memorable Days for Turkiye When Republic's Foundations Were Laid]()
![BTA Director General: Agency's Archives Include Messages on Memorable Days for Turkiye When Republic's Foundations Were Laid]()
Left to right: Bulgarian Ambassador to Turkiye Angel Cholakov, BTA head Kiril Valchev and Plamen Kartaloff (BTA Photo)
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
![A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday]()
site.btaBTA Director General: Agency's Archives Include Messages on Memorable Days for Turkiye When Republic's Foundations Were Laid
A meeting on culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye was held at the BTA Press Club in Ankara on Tuesday. Opening the event, BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said that the agency's archives include messages on memorable days for Turkiye, when the Republic's foundations were laid. In those days of October and November 1923, BTA was already 25 years old, he specified.
The meeting was organized ahead of the Sofia Opera and Ballet's Tosca performances in Ankara on November 8 and Istanbul on November 11, mottoed "Bulgaria Congratulates Turkiye: Happy Centenary of the Republic!," held under the auspices of the wives of the two countries' presidents, Desislava Radeva of Bulgaria and Emine Erdogan of Turkiye. Attending the meeting were Sofia Opera and Ballet Director Plamen Kartaloff, who directed the Tosca perfomance, Trakia University of Stara Zagora Rector Dobri Yarkov, Bulgarian National Radio Director General Milen Mitev, Gabriela Georgieva and Martin Iliev, who will play the roles of Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi, and conductor Sunay Muratov, who holds Bulgarian and Turkish citizenship and has been a conductor at the Turkish State Opera and Ballet for 20 years.
In his speech, Valchev quoted Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's words of 1931 that he will not forget his pleasant moments in Bulgaria and that he had been and would always be a friend of Bulgarian people. Valchev also quoted Atatürk's words that the two countries should be friends, and whoever is against Bulgaria is also against Turkiye.
The BTA Director General recalled that the Sofia Opera and Ballet's Tosca tour is an idea of the Bulgarian Embassy in Ankara and Ambassador Angel Cholakov, with the support of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture as well as the Bulgarian-Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which which BTA is a partner, and the ALCOMET and DOGUS Construction companies. "This is a charity event, the incomes will go to the areas affected by the devastating earthquakes this year," Valchev said.
"We dedicate today's talks to what connects us - culture and education as a bridge between Bulgaria and Turkiye, and we hold he talks among the paintings of the joint exhibition unveiled here [at the BTA Press Club in Ankara] on National Awakeners' Day [November 1], Closeness by artists Ivan Milushev and Yasar Ali Gunes," the BTA Director General noted.
In his words, both Bulgarians and Turks benefit from spiritual closeness because, to paraphrase a French philosopher, when you exchange goods for money, only one side gets goods, but when you share works of art, such as the Sofia Opera and Ballet's performances in Ankara and Istanbul and education between universities, the culture and knowledge remain in the possession of both sides.
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