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During the Cold War in 1950–1951, hundreds of thousands of Turks left the territory of the People's Republic of Bulgaria.The expulsion was planned by the Bulgarian government before it began, and the reason was to secure its national borders and expel the Turkish population.
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]
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]
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 ...
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Bulgarian Turks: In the 2011 Bulgarian census, which did not receive a response regarding ethnicity from the total population, 588,318 people, or 8.8% of the self-appointed responders, determined their ethnicity as Turkish; [4] while the latest census which provided answers from the entire population, the 2001 census, recorded 746,664 Turks, or ...