Turkish Military staff in Bulgaria for exercise

Col. Elmaz, the Fifth Mechanized Brigade Command’s Lieut. Col. Krasimir Atanasov, Col. Valentin Dinev Molkov and soldiers attended the military ceremony in Bulgaria.

Elmaz, in his speech at the ceremony, said both countries were holding military exercises in a bid to strengthen friendly relations between the Turkish and Bulgarian Armed Forces, adding this was the second exercise and Turkish military personnel would be sent to a military unit in Bulgaria’s Kazanlik but Bulgaria did not dispatch military personnel to Turkey this time.

Lieut. Col. Atanasov hoped the military exercise would be successful. Also, two Bulgarian female soldiers joined the exercise this year for the first time.