Bulgarian PM gives thumbs down to Neo-Ottomanism

Interesting article here from the Sofia News Agency regarding how, during a Turkish-hosted dinner for Balkan leaders in New York, Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov snubbed Turkish president Abdullah Gul’s efforts to present his country as unrivalled hegemon in the region and himself as sultan of a re-emerging Ottoman empire. The article says that Borisov was ‘the only one of the leaders who did not rise to welcome the president of Turkey’, which means that Greece’s FM Dimitris Droutsas, who was also at the event, did tug his forelock, though, at least, he didn’t go as far as Fyrom President George Ivanov and Albanian PM Sali Berisha who both, apparently, ‘rushed to hug’ their  master as he arrived at the dinner.