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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
[99] [100] Moreover, from the 1950s onwards, Turks of Western Thrace began to immigrate to Western Europe alongside other Greek citizens. [101] Whilst many Western Thrace Turks had intended to return to Greece after working for a number of years, a new Greek law was introduced which effectively forced the minority to remain in their host countries.
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 ...
Turks in Bulgaria: List of Bulgarian Turks Croatia: 367 (2011 Croatian census) [14] 2,000 [15] The Turks are officially recognised as a minority ethnic group, in accordance with the 2010 Constitution of Croatia. [16] Turks in Croatia: List of Croatian Turks Greece: 85,945 or 1.2% of Greece's population (1951 census) [17] 150,000 [8]
The First English Language School was founded in Sofia. [19]November 7 – The 1958 Bulgarian Cup Final (the 18th final of the Bulgarian Cup) was contested between Spartak Plovdiv and Minyor Pernik at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia.