...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...to help police cope with the growing influx of
"Soldiers arrived at the Bulgarian-
The 350 troops deployed with 40 units of equipment, he added.
This year has already seen more than 6,500 people cross illegally into Bulgaria, three times the numbers for the first nine months of 2020, according to the interior ministry.
The east European country sits on one of the main routes
Bulgaria is an external border for the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
. A partly damaged barbed-wire fence runs the length of the 259-kilometre (161-mile) frontier with Turkey.
Parliament agreed in August on the dispatch of 400-700 soldiers on the borders with Greece and Turkey, mainly to help build fencing.
Bulgaria is the poorest EU member state and has never taken in large numbers of asylum-seekers, most of whom try to move on through the EU before waiting for a response from Sofia on their refugee status.
EU countries have feared an influx of people from Afghanistan since the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
seized control on August 15, with memories still fresh from the migrant crisis that shook Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
in 2015.