The Turkish Ethnic Group in Bulgaria: History and Problems of Integration
The Turkish Ethnic Group in Bulgaria: History and Problems of Integration

Summary/Abstract: The Muslim emigration from Bulgaria to Turkey has been going on formore than a century. With some exceptions, the emigrant waves resulted from caused andforced migration. Almost a million Bulgarian ethnic Turks left the country, 390,000 ofthem only during the period between 1989 and 1997. The International humanitarianorganizations qualified this process as the biggest migration of groups of people after theWorld War II.The purpose of this research is to evaluate the changes of the Bulgarian politicalstrategy towards the Turkish ethnic community over the last three decades. The researchfocus is on the second biggest Bulgarian ethno-religious minority – the Bulgarian ethnicTurks – its social status, self-identification and participation in the political and social lifein Bulgaria.

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