1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador Elena Poptodorova. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,000 I've been engaged in work with ICD for many years now. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Ever since my time in the United States as Bulgaria's Ambassador, 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:22,000 I served two times there, a total of over 12 years from 2002 through 2016. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:26,000 And all that time I've also been engaged with ICD. 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:35,000 The roots are obvious. The roots have to do with ignorance, with manipulative information, 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:43,000 with, unfortunately, easy use of that kind of moods for political ends. 8 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:51,000 And I think it's a joint responsibility, of course, of the political leaders in the respective countries 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:01:00,000 to be able not to yield to the temptation of using easy flows and easy public moods, 10 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 but also it has to do, and this is probably the harder part, 11 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,000 it has to do with the way generations have been raised and educated. 12 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:19,000 And this is why I think that ICD is so important, because it's an organization which can easily go into that particular direction 13 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:27,000 and try to work with national groups in more countries on the level of education and information. 14 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:34,000 And I have to mention media, being with the media now, I have to mention here the huge importance, critical importance of media, 15 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:44,000 and social media in particular, where oftentimes there is no accountability at all about what kind of ideas are being spread around. 16 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:59,000 So that's a complex answer to your question, so it's both cultural, political, historic motives that bring about this unhappy situation. 17 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:05,000 The solution is contained in the answer to the first question. 18 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Good faith, clear mind, clear intentions. 19 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:23,000 You need dedicated people to go out and just begin the process, which is very long and very hard, but it has to start. 20 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Listen, Turkey is very special to Bulgarians too, not to mention that practically we somehow have Turkish cuisine, 21 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:46,000 so very much in our households, in our houses that it's considered to be Bulgarian, so many words back and forth. 22 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,000 So, Turkey is part of Bulgaria's history. 23 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 I have relatives who was born in Bulgaria. 24 00:02:53,000 --> 00:03:03,000 You see, it's such a close relationship, and this is probably why we've always been very conscious and careful of keeping good relations with Turkey. 25 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 And that has not changed. 26 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:17,000 You know that in Bulgaria and in other countries there are, unfortunately, some radical parties, nationalistic parties, 27 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:29,000 they like to call themselves patriotic parties, it sounds better, but even though there have been attempts to somehow distance Bulgarian politics from Turkey, 28 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,000 it never worked, regardless of governments. 29 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 So, that's going to be. 30 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Yeah. 31 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Yeah. 32 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Yeah. 33 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,000 Yeah. 34 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Thank you so much, man, for this time. 35 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Thank you so much. 36 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Yeah. 37 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Thank you. 38 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 God. 39 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Thank you so much. 40 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Yeah. 41 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Yeah. 42 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Yeah. 43 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 I, even, yeah, I've heard those videos just during this place. 44 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Yeah? 45 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Yeah. 46 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Yeah. 47 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,820 You know my 48 00:03:57,820 --> 00:03:59,180 And women, I need to know that Sarah's eight powerful, but I thinkitude, could I am Hello. 49 00:03:59,180 --> 00:04:00,000 Only when I saw that single, but I were the recently treated or to be seated up anointed.