Balgarianovinite.com The President and CEO of Turkiye’s national news agency, Anadolu Agency, Serdar Karagoz, visited the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) on Monday.
BTA’s Director General, Kiril Valchev, and the Director of the Archives and Reference Department, Desislava Sevova, showed the guest the renovated facilities where the agency’s archives and photo archive are kept. Karagoz also had the opportunity to see the negatives, the reading room, and the digitization process. In the main storage area, he viewed the bulletins and thematic dossiers. The hosts also showed him materials from 1923 related to the proclamation of Turkyie as a republic with Ankara as its capital.
Valchev and Sevova also presented boxes containing reference materials about Turkiye, including clippings from the periodical press, BTA bulletins, the first BTA bulletin, and the BTA library. Afterwards, the guest visited the multimedia center, the MaxiM hall, BTA’s National Press Club in Sofia, and the agency’s renovated newsroom.
Karagoz was impressed by the archive, the materials it holds, and the organization of the work. He also viewed the “then and now” photos displayed in the main archival storage, where BTA bulletins from 1921 and the thematic dossiers of the Reference Department are kept, expressing his admiration.
He was particularly impressed by photos from 1959. He also expressed his admiration for the extensive information that BTA has on Turkiye in its thematic dossiers.
BTA has established modern archive storage facilities equipped with advanced shelving systems and climate control, ensuring the long-term preservation of its records in compliance with Bulgarian archival standards.
New facilities have been developed for storing bulletins, thematic archives, the library, and the photo archive. The bulletin collection is divided between a main repository and a special storage facility. The main archive holds bulletins from 1921 onward, covering around 150 titles that have evolved over the years. The special storage facility preserves bulletins from 1898 to 1920, including the first bulletin handwritten by BTA’s first director, Oskar Iskender.
The special storage room also contains books published before 1878, along with rare editions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many featuring handwritten dedications. These volumes form part of BTA’s library, which has served as a depository since 1950. In 1952, the library contained 11,000 volumes; today, it houses approximately 90,000. The new library facility is now fully equipped to meet archival storage requirements. Anadolu Agency President Karagoz Visits Bulgarian News Agency 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-02-16 17:42:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law