{"id":54784,"date":"2013-11-29T08:33:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T04:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=54784"},"modified":"2013-11-29T08:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T04:33:41","slug":"bulgaria-builds-fence-on-border-with-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=54784","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria Builds Fence on Border With Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bulgaria-fence-construction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54782\" alt=\"\u0532\u0578\u0582\u056c\u0572\u0561\u0580\u056b\u0561,\u0539\u0578\u0582\u0580\u0584\u056b\u0561, \u057d\u0561\u0570\u0574\u0561\u0576, \u0561\u0580\u0563\u0565\u056c\u0561\u057a\u0561\u057f\u0576\u0565\u0577\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bulgaria-fence-construction.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bulgaria-fence-construction.jpg 444w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bulgaria-fence-construction-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bulgaria-fence-construction-402x300.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bulgarian authorities say they are constructing a fence on a 30-kilometer (19-mile) stretch of the country&#8217;s 274-kilometer (171-mile) border with Turkey in an effort to stop illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Angel Naydenov said Thursday that the 3-meter-high (10-foot-) fence is expected to be ready by February. It will run mainly through forested, hilly areas where visibility for border patrols is limited.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgarian authorities have rejected accusations the fence was aimed at keeping out refugees from Syria and other war-ravaged countries seeking to get into the EU. The country has faced an influx of migrants that far outnumbers its capacity.<\/p>\n<p>During the Cold War, Bulgaria&#8217;s barbed-wire borders prevented its citizens from fleeing to the West, but after the country joined NATO in 2004 all fences were removed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bulgarian authorities say they are constructing a fence on a 30-kilometer (19-mile) stretch of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":54782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[4432,3243,1282],"class_list":["post-54784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-border","tag-bulgaria","tag-turkey","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}