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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]
However in 1950-1951 there was an exodus; around 155,000 Turks left Bulgaria for Turkey. [171] The migration of Pomaks was banned, since they were seen as ethnically Bulgarians, unlike the Turkish people. [ 172 ]
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 ...
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]
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]