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A decade after 1878 as much as a quarter of the arable land in Bulgaria transferred from Turkish to Bulgarian ownership. [156] With the outbreak of war some Turks sold their property, mostly to wealthy local Bulgarians. Other Turks rented their lands, usually to dependable local Bulgarians, on the understanding that it would be handed back if ...
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.
This is a list of notable Turkish Bulgarians who were born in Bulgaria (during the Ottoman or post-Ottoman periods) as well as people of full or partial Turkish Bulgarian origin. In addition to notable Bulgarian citizens of Turkish origin, there are many notable Turkish Bulgarian individuals who either emigrated to, or were born in, Turkey and ...
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]
Bulgarian-Turkish relations subsequently improved. Both countries signed numerous agreements on intergovernmental cooperation and have intensified their economic relations. However, due to the high number of refugees from North Africa and the Middle East crossing the EU's external borders, Bulgaria began erecting a border fence on its border ...
Bulgarisation (Bulgarian: българизация), also known as Bulgarianisation (Bulgarian: побългаряване) is the spread of Bulgarian culture beyond the Bulgarian ethnic space. Historically, unsuccessful assimilation efforts in Bulgaria were primarily directed at Muslims, most notably Bulgarian Turks , but non-Islamic groups ...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, then the Turkish prime minister, "expressed his concern of rising anti-Turkish sentiments in Bulgaria" [92] to the Bulgarian prime minister. The Turkish Foreign Ministry also "expressed its concern over the rising heated rhetoric in Bulgaria". [93] According to a report by Ivan Dikov, "not just Атака but a large ...
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.