124,647 foreigners have received Turkish citizenship for the past 10 years

Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler has announced that for the past 10 years a total of 124,647 foreigners have received Turkish citizenship. More than 44,000 of them were Bulgarian citizens.

In the past year the Turkish government gave citizenship to a few thousands Bulgarians who had arrived with tourist visas. 15,588 Azerbaijani citizens and 7518 Russians have received Turkish citizenship in the past 10 years.

Adapted from: Bulgarian National Radio