(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 3. Bulgarian News
Agency (BTA) has launched a National Press Club in Türkiye's
Ankara, trend reports.
'BTA is planning to have such press clubs in all neighboring
countries, as well as in countries with large Bulgarian
communities. Ankara is the fifth - after Skopje (Republic of North
Macedonia), Bucharest (Romania), Bosilegrad (Serbia) and Taraclia
(Moldova),' BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said.
'In fulfilling our duty to tell the world about Bulgaria and the
Bulgarians, we have a good partner such as Anadolu Agency. In the
autumn of last year, my colleague Anadolu Agency Director General
Serdar Karagoz and I signed a new agreement to exchange news every
day, but we noted that the cooperation between BTA and Anadolu
Agency is older than us - the first agreement dates back to 1972.
The two agencies are also together in the Association of Balkan
News Agencies (ABNA), which, with the support of our Turkish
friends, is now registered with its headquarters in Bulgaria, and
Mr. Karagoz will take over the presidency of ABNA from Greece this
year at the annual general meeting in Ataturk's hometown of
Thessaloniki, where Serdar himself was born,' Valchev added.
Anadolu Agency General Director Serdar Karagoz added that it is
time to bring the two communities even closer to each other.
'The Anadolu Agency was founded in Ankara exactly 103 years ago.
It's a great pleasure for us that exactly 103 years later BTA is
opening an office here in Ankara. The two countries are very close
and by that I don't mean only the geographical aspect of things. We
are also close culturally and our historical links are
sustainable,' Karagoz said.
A documentary exhibition of the Bulgarian Archives State Agency
dedicated to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was demonstrated on the
sidelines of the opening ceremony. It shows photographs and
documents of the time the founding father of Türkiye spent in
Bulgaria's Sofia.
Opening new press clubs is part of the Agency's policy under the
brand BTA National Press Club. The goal is to create them for
communication between media and business, politics, culture and
sport. Press conferences, discussions, exhibitions, and other
events are organized there.
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