Turkey: Five Turkish lifters tested positive during the U23 Europeans last month.

That was enough for the Turkish officials. The entire board of their weightlifting federation resigned.

Akkus would not name the weightlifters, saying their positives had not been confirmed yet, but said none of them had won medals.

Bulgaria: Ivan Abadjiev wants to return to Bulgaria.

I posted about this before. Seems to be true after all.

“ll put out a few more seminars in America, then I plan to return permanently to Bulgaria and finally finish with sport”