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Bulgaria gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878 with Treaty of San Stefano. The Turks were between fifth and quarter of the population, which made them a minority. [3] The rights of the Turkish minority, as well as the Muslim minority was protected with the Treaty of Berlin, which gave basic
Under the new ("foreign") Bulgarian administration the Turkish intellectuals felt the need to communicate the new laws and regulations to the Turkish population by first providing translations of the Bulgarian State Gazette. During the years the number of Turkish newspapers and publications published in the Principality of Bulgaria rose to 90.
Razgrad is located in the Ludogorie (Deliorman) region, where a large number of ethnic Turks live. After the 1923 Bulgarian coup d'état minority schools (including Turkish) were closed, nationalism gained more popularity in Bulgaria, [4] in 1932 there was a pogrom against the Turkish minority in Kesarevo [5] and in 1933 Feyzi Efendi, the governor of Krumovgrad (Koşukavak) was assassinated ...
Democrats for Responsibility, Solidarity and Tolerance (DOST; Bulgarian: Демократи за отговорност, свобода и толерантност, romanized: Demokrati otgovornost, svoboda i tolerantnost, Turkish: Sorumluluk, Özgürlük ve Hoşgörü için Demokratlar) is a liberal and centrist political party in Bulgaria, mainly representing the Turkish minority.
Bulgarian Turks constitute a substantial portion of Bulgaria's Muslim population. While Muslims of all ethnicities (Turks, Pomaks, Muslim Roma, Albanians and Tatars among others) were affected by the "Revival Process", many Muslim Bulgarian nationals were referred to as "Turks" by the Bulgarian government whether ethnically Turkish or not and vica versa.
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Bulgarian Turks constitute a substantial portion of both Bulgaria's Muslim population and the victims of the "Big Excursion". While Muslims of non-Turkish ethnicities (Pomaks, Muslim Roma, and Tatars among others) were also affected by the "Big Excursion", [1] Pomaks were often referred to as "Turks" and vica versa. [12]
These events led to the beginning of the revival of the Turkish minority identity in Bulgaria and protests took place in some of the bigger settlements in the southern and northern Turk enclaves. Moreover, the Turkish community received the solidarity of Bulgarian intellectuals and opponents of the regime.