- Kapıkule
Kapıkule is the Turkish frontier town on the border of
Turkey andBulgaria . Its counterpart on the Bulgarian side isKapitan Andreevo . Together, they are the second largest border crossing point in the world. [ cite web|url=http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=127971 |title=Never-ending line of trucks reaches 17 km at Kapıkule|publisher=Zaman Newspaper|accessdate=2008-07-07]In the dawn of the
Revolutions of 1989 , the Kapıkule border crossing saw a mass exodus of Turks fleeing the forced assimilation laws of 80’sCommunist Bulgaria into Turkey. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,958355,00.html Refugees A Modern Balkan Exodus] , "TIME Magazine ", August 14, 1989]References
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