Българската политика по македонския въпрос след Младотурския преврат (юли – октомври 1908 г.)
The Bulgarian Policy on the Macedonian Question after the Young Turk Coup (July – October 1908)

Summary/Abstract: The Young Turk coup of July 1908 brought about serious changes in the political situation in the Balkans. The Bulgarian government faced the need to reassess its attitude towards the basic problems in the national policy of the Bulgarian state. The end of the reform campaign in Macedonia, the positive attitude of the Great Powers to the Young Turk regime and the orientation of the Balkan states towards rapprochement with Turkey made the ruling circles in the Principality adopt the road of independent actions. In late July and early August, the Macedonian question gradually fell into the background in the foreign policy conceptions of the government in connection with the decision to declare Bulgaria’s independence. The change of the priorities in Bulgaria’s national policy did not affect the fundamental principles on which the “Macedonian policy” of the Principality was traditionally based. A.Malinov’s government continued to adhere to the autonomist variant for solving the Macedonian question. On this basis, irrespective of the differences in the attitudes of the Bulgarian ruling circles towards the various currents in the revolutionary organization, the objective unity and the tasks and objectives of the Principality and the national liberation movement were preserved. Changes occurred in the tactical approach. During the first half of August, the Bulgarian government gradually abandoned its reserved stand of passive observer and tried to impose a positive trend in Bulgarian-Turkish relations as a basis of its policy on the Macedonian question. The practical realization of this line in the short period up to the beginning of October, when the declaration of independence gave these relations a different direction, was insignificant.

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