Abstract
Abstract
The move of the Bulgarian Communist Government to liquidate the Muslim Turks in Bulgaria, initiated at the end of 1984 and completed in the beginning of 1985, by forcing the Turks in Bulgaria to exchange their Turkish names for Bulgarian ones, is a crime against the most elemantary principles of human rights, of world civilization and culture. By this act the Bulgarian government has committed itself to a policy of an ethnic, cultural and political genocide. Though this term has been initially used to mean physical destruction of one or another nation, in a broader sense it signifies a cultural and political extinction of a national minority.
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Subjects | Turkish Society and Community, Late Modern Balkan History |
| Journal Section | Araştırma Makaleleri |
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| Publication Date | April 20, 1988 |
| Published in Issue | Year 1988 Volume: 52 Issue: 202 |
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