Мюсюлманското население от Североизточна България в българската и в турската политика (1919–1939 г.)
The Mussulman Population from North-Eastern Bulgaria in Bulgarian and Turkish Politics (1919–1939)

Summary/Abstract: The authors examine the Bulgarian and Turkish politics towards the Mussulman population from North-Eastern Bulgaria in the period between the wars. It is proved that Bulgaria considers the Turkic-speaking and Mussulman population as a minority and bases its politics to it on the agreements for the defence of the minorities under the patronage of the UN. But Turkey follows a marked nationalist politics and reveals active Kemalist propaganda between the Mussulman population in Bulgaria. The word is for a support of a constant campaign of migration, development of private schools, distribution of press and the new Turkish alphabet, creation of local intelligentsia – followers of the Kemalist movement etc. While in Turkey the adherents of the Mussulman religion are put to persecution, the Muslims in the neighbouring Balkan countries, and in front of all the Bulgarian Muslims, are considered by the ruling Kemalist circles for a constituent part of the Turkish nation. Ankara operates with them and uses them as an argument in its foreign politics. In its main mass the Mussulman population in Bulgaria remains a peaceful and agrarian one, politically passive, well-disposed to neighbours-Christians. But however Kemalist organizations emerge, an active Kemalist propaganda starts, psychosis for migration is held up etc. – a process, which the Bulgarian state and the anti-Kemalist Mussulman powers do not manage to restrict.

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