November 18, 2019
It has been 30 years since the communist regime, which had been in power in Bulgaria for 45 years, launched an assimilation campaign against Turks and […]
November 18, 2019
But during their forced migration in 1989, Bulgarian Turks were asked to pack their memories, histories, neighbors, and friends into a suitcase and leave without a […]
October 9, 2019
The President for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) Mr. Abdullah Eren said; “Balkans are one of the most important geographies where Muslim Turks impressed their […]
August 7, 2019
Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Assoc. Dr. Tahir Büyükakın, Balkan Turks Culture and Solidarity Association Chairman Vice Chairman Sukru Ar and members of the board met. Together […]
June 20, 2019
Bulgaria’s ethnic Turkish community, persecuted and even deported last century, continues its fight for recognition. Filmmaker: Yelda Yanat Bagci In Bulgaria, a country of seven million people […]
June 19, 2019
Bulgarian communist dictator Todor Zhivkov led campaigns of forced assimilation and ethnic cleansing against non-Bulgarian minorities, particularly Turks and Muslims. Three decades after the 1989 ethnic […]
June 13, 2019
Thirty years ago, the communist regime in Sofia started to assimilate the Turkish minority by force. Bulgarian turks had to change their names and were no […]
June 13, 2019
It has been 30 years since Turks in Bulgaria were forced into an exodus due to an assimilation policy forcing them to change their names, along […]
June 11, 2019
Tashmë ka nisur një fushatë për të zbardhur të vërtetën për atë që njihet si pastrimi etnik më i madh gjatë Luftës së Ftohtë. Asokohe, diktatori komunist bullgar […]
May 26, 2019
Local and National Press of forced migration in 30 years was forgotten. The agency of the Republic of Turkey, which was included in the subject in […]
May 24, 2019
Between the years 1984-1989 # Bulgaria ‘s abandoned about 350 thousand of our compatriots who fled their homeland for the assimilation policies implemented by Turkey that […]
May 16, 2019
Fleeing a policy of forced assimilation, many Turkish-speaking Bulgarians fled to Turkey in the 1990s. World Bulletin/News Desk In the winter of 1988, a 10-year-old Bulgarian-born […]
May 16, 2019
bout the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve […]
May 16, 2019
About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve […]
May 14, 2019
By Ron Synovitz The regime of Bulgaria’s totalitarian ruler Todor Zhivkov collapsed just one day after the fall of the Berlin Wall. RFE/RL correspondent Ron Synovitz […]
May 14, 2019
The exile of 340,000 ethnic Turks from Bulgaria between June and September 1989 was an ethnic purge and was not voluntary as presented at the time, […]