Martin Klepetko, the Czech ambassador to Bulgaria, has been presented with a toilet bowl by the Discussion Club for Social and Local Policy, the youth wing of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), Focus news agency reported on January 16 2009.

Klepetko promised to take it to David Cerny, the brainpower behind the Entropa exhibition, who enraged the Bulgarian Government with his depiction of the country as a Turkish toilet.

The art installation was on display at the European Council Building in Brussels. Initially thought to be the work of 27 European artists, after Bulgaria displayed great displeasure and insisted on further investigation, it transpired that Cerny and a small group of Czech artists were behind it. Elena Zhelebova, supposedly the name of the Bulgarian artist who crafted the Turkish toilet, was also an invention.

After Cerny admitted that the whole project was a hoax, he issued an apology. Reportedly, Klepetko received the gift with a smile and joked with the young socialists that they should have brought a mini-model of the art work, so it could be thrown into the toilet bowl. "It could be a symbolic gesture of eliminating all borders and clichés," the ambassador said.

Meanwhile, Nikolai Angelov, mayor of the Black Sea town of Balchik, extended an invitation to Cerny to visit and if he wished, to participate in the art initiatives the town hosts.

Angelov has said that if the artist accept the invitation, he could see for himself that Bulgaria could be associated with many more pleasant things than a toilet, Dnevnik daily reported.