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The opinion about emigration of the Turks did not change, but one more reason for exodus was added: the large number of Turks in Bulgaria. [8] At the beginning of 1950, the Bulgarian government began to forcibly seize the lands of the Turks, especially in the North-Eastern part of the country - Dobruja and Deliorman. [9]
The migration peaked in 1989, when 360,000 Turks left Bulgaria as a result of the Bulgarian communist regime's assimilation campaign against them, with some 150,000 returning between 1989 and 1990. Today, the Turks of Bulgaria are concentrated in two rural areas, in the Northeast (Ludogorie/Deliorman) and the Southeast (the Eastern Rhodopes). [29]
The heavy taxation, nationalisation of private minority schools, and measures against the Turkish culture in the name of the modernisation of Bulgaria, built up great pressure for the Turkish minority to emigrate and, when exit restrictions were relaxed in 1950, many ethnic Turks applied to leave. In August 1950 the Bulgarian government ...
Map of Belene Island. The Belene labour camp, also referred to as Belene concentration camp, was part of the network of forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria. It was located on the Belene Island, between two branches of the Danube river. At the height of Valko Chervenkov's repressions in 1952, the camp had 2,323 inmates - 2,248 men and 75 women
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 February 2025. Americans of Turkish birth or descent Ethnic group Turkish Americans Türk Amerikalılar The 27th Annual Turkish Day Parade (2008) in New York Total population 252,256 [a] 2023 American Community Survey 350,000-500,000 Turkish Coalition of America Regions with significant populations ...
Exodus of Turks from Bulgaria (1950–1951) This page was last edited on 3 March 2019, at 02:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Additionally, Turks who immigrated from countries neighboring Turkey are also counted in this figure. It's likely that most of the Turkish Venezuelans trace their ancestry to immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, who arrived to Venezuela at the same time most of the Arab diaspora in South America had emigrated as well. [citation needed]
Turks in Bosnia and Herzegovina: List of Bosnian Turks Bulgaria: 588,318 or 8.8% of Bulgaria's population (2011 census) [11] 750,000 [8]-800,000 [12]: 170 The Bulgarian constitution of 1991 does not mention any ethnic minorities and the Bulgarian language is the sole official language of the State. However, in accordance with Article 36(2), the ...