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Bulgaria, Turks and the politics of apology. During Bulgaria’s ‘Restoration of Names’ process, nearly one million ethnic Turks were humiliated, says author.
The ethnic Turks of Nova Mahala and other villages don’t blame their problems on discrimination by ethnic Bulgarians. “We know that the Bulgarian people were absolutely not at fault for the ch ...
At a tiny village mosque in the Rhodope Mountains near Kurdzhali, an elderly, nervous Turk performed a ragged pantomime, trying to make sure a visitor would understand his story about fear and repr… ...
Five years of archival research by an RFE/RL correspondent in Bulgaria has resulted in a documentary film that sheds light on the forced assimilation of ethnic Turks in the 1980s. Reporter Tatiana ...
In the 1980s, Bulgaria's communist rulers drove hundreds of thousands of ethnic Turks out of the country after failing to forcefully assimilate them. Thirteen years after the fall of one-party ...
Al Jazeera English aired earlier in December, as part of its Al Jazeera World series, a documentary about the ethnic Turk minority in Bulgaria – one suggesting ethnic Turks are systematically ...
BULGARIA ACTS TO WIPE OUT A CULTURE Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) ...
Ten percent of the Bulgarian population is ethnically Turkish, and there are approximately 120,000 Turks in Turkey who are potential voters in Bulgarian elections. Enver Hatipoğlu, a MRF ...
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized what he described as "pressure" on ethnic Turks in Bulgaria ahead of elections in the country. Addressing representatives ...
While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized what he described as “pressure” on ethnic Turks in Bulgaria, Radev retorted that his country would not accept democracy lessons from ...