The "Turkish Wing" of the Independent Society of Human Rights Protection

ZAFER Z.

BALKANISTIC FORUM, cilt.3, ss.91-127, 2019 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Dergi Adı: BALKANISTIC FORUM
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.91-127
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: assimilation, Turks, Muslims, resistance
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The paper relates in first person about the motivation, participants, organizing and enlarging the Turkish resistance movement against the assimilation actions of the Bulgarian communist regime from the 1980s. From the inside point of view are narrated the processes of the resistance of the Turks and Muslims against the attempts to change their names and violent Bulgarisation. In details are followed the actions concerning the voicing of the repressions of the regime against the Muslims, starving strikes as symbols of resistance, the participation of Turks in the Independent Society of Human Rights Protection and the establishment of "Turkish section" to it.