I can't speak Turkish and have been told auto-subtitles are innacurate. I'm sorry

Do you have anything to back up that claim? Because I have things to back that the Bulgarians are Southern Slavs, who were influenced and intermingled with the Turkic Bulgars. And I do'nt see why you say "save", if you were right, there would be nothing wrong with them becoming South Slavs as long as it naturally happened

Blagoevgrad District and Pirin Macedonia are both valid names. Pirin Macedonia is more historic, and Blageovgrad District, more modern from what I can tell. Not simply "It's actually this, not that"

@HistoryWithEm43 Both names refer to the same region. One just emphasizes on the region's individuality while the other on the fact that it's part of the broader region of Macedonia 😁

How?

@HistoryWithEm43 he is a weightlifting world champion even made to the cover of time magazine . he is born in bulgaria fled to turkey during a tournement in austuralia to tell the world oppressions bulgarian regime was doing to turks. after that bulgarians let turks to immigrate to turkey due to internatinal pressure. he has a movie too

@@cagataygedik7700 I know who he is, though thank you for telling me. I just do'nt see how it was a miss not to talk about him. He did'nt seem important to the story, just a footnote His story did'nt seem to have much to do with the pressure from the West

not really it was much more complicated but in short Ottoman rule over bulgaria was like 1984 you could not critisize the ottomans you could not refuse the ottomans again its insanely complex but you are straight up lying rich christians in the ottoman empire were likely if not 100% foreigners from austria italian states german states and polish states since those had actual influence and a strong nation state backing them aswell as conections which were vital to the ottoman empire especially in its later states since it was insanely under developed and weak as a state

@combustionberg3303 Yes, the Ottoman Empire was economically very weak, most systems were underdeveloped, but capital and trade were really in the hands of Ottoman Christians and Jews. The Ottoman Empire had no assimilation efforts. If it had, there would have been no Bulgarians, Greeks, Serbs left in the 600-year period. Let's be fair about this. At least they would have all become Muslims. We Turks were just soldiers and farmers who died in wars.

@@erenbirinci1133 it did have assimilation attempts they just never went full steam with it but many times they attempted to or atleast tested on smaller scales

Thank you

yet it was held accountable for ottoman debt. so i would call it a successor. people claim that as well

Officially, it is change of regime.

No, they are not Slavified Turks

Nothing about this is silly, and they are'nt. Bulgarians (not Bulgars) are Southern Slavs

Turkey's treatment of its minorities, multiple attempts of forced assimilation and ethnic slaughter have all also gone unpunished. Why would Bulgaria be guiltripped into an apology when the biggest culprit of it in the region doesnt even recognize that those things have happend? Like it or not no one will get punished for it and today it is simply better to leave it as history than to actively try and open the old wound

no bulgarians are turkish

@testtester1012 no, they're South Slavs

Actually the original bulgars war Turkic

@@asafatl3296 They were 1. Not Oghuz but Oghuric unlike Turks 2. They adopted elements from Iranic, Finno-Ugric and Hunnic tribes And 3. They assimilated into the South Slavic population so modern Bulgarians are undeniably slavs

But yes the Bulgars were Turkic

I do'nt remember what exactly I said, but I probaly did mean it as a joke

Thanks. And yeah, alot of my quality could improve lol. I'm making these videos on a 6 year old phone

Isn't that what Turks did to Greeks? And are still doing to Arabs and kurds in turkey. If you don't want to assimilate, then leave. Your culture and language is only superior in your country. Elsewhere you're a foreigner.

Sure, let us also cover the Greek Genocide of 1913-1923.

​@@vasilisgm8966 greek genocide of turks that happened in izmir you meant?

@@vasilisgm8966 since when protecting your country from invaders became a genocide?

@Fahrecen You seem to misunderstand my reply "Fahrecen." Did we invade Turkey in 1913? No. Neither did we until we liberated it in 1919. So generally, you give a poor excuse for someone whose country was complicit in killing over 2 million Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians.

@@vasilisgm8966 greeks massacred turkish ppl in izmir 1919 when invader greek forces came

I did'nt try to justify it, I tried to show how *they* tried to justify it. What the BCP did was wrong in every sense of the word, and if you look through the comments I am arguing with people that it was wrong

You're saying that with a Croatia pfp?

That doesnt jusitify something done much later with no correlation. Genocide is an evil and shouldnt ever be done in the first place.

Now lets talk about all the genocides balkans did

@@OkachaWasTaken I’m reverting to Orthodox( that makes me a Serb) I don’t know how to change it

@@lavishx_ still these Turks are like the boy who cried wolf

Does murdering a child for her grandfathers crimes make justice? No

Whats the unspeakable things you say?

Do you have sources for that? I've read rumors that the USSR told Bulgaria to do this, but didn't read a historian saying so. The first I've never heard of

@@HistoryWithEm43 This man is the founder and co-leader of the Turkish party for rights and freedoms in Bulgaria "ДПС", he was a Communist State Security agent himself [Bulgarian KGB], so were the other founders of this party etc... And he outlines it verbatim here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6vCcnaKeL17paM&ab_channel=BankerMedia Starts at 6:00, if you have any understanding of Slavic languages you will get the jist of it. or perhaps try using AI

@@HistoryWithEm43 when it comes to eastern bloc dealings and such nothing is documented especially for such events only if you get the story from someone who was in the backroom the plan was made, trust me i have been scouring the internet for years and anything pertaining to Bulgaria x Russia communications and orders and all stuff similar is not documented and a lot of the communists from that time will take that to their graves you can go scour the internet but a reliable source you will not find for anything more ambiguous you would need to scour KGB and later FSB records which are under key and lock and unlike cia they have no declassification its impossible to get hold of such information reliably unless you go interviewing whistle blowers from those times and those are not reliable sources

Süleymanoğlu got the Bulgarians to not participate if I recall correctly and became somewhat of a son figure for the then president

Probably not, but we can't know that for sure. Hopefully that will never happen though

The reason why balkans did it to Turkish is because Ottomans came in the Balkans :)

@@alexatanasov9573 So you think its fine to murder children, force people to lose their identity and commit r*pe because 500 years ago some people moved into the region, and because over a hundred years ago people committed crimes? You people are what give the Balkans a bad name

​​@@HistoryWithEm43All of the things you have mentioned here were done by the Ottomans to the Christian populations of the Balkans. Centuries of Islamic occupation, being treated as second class citizen in your own homeland, having your own children kidnapped to be groomed to be soldiers and being actively targeted by the Islamic slave trade and much MUCH more... Not to mention the same assimilation attempts were done by the Turks with Ataturk who wanted to homogenize the nation and as result forcebly changed people's names and renamed entire regions, towns, villages etc to have more "turkish" sound to them. Just look at what happend with Lazs and Georgians from North Eastern Turkey.. So when Turkey itself had fallen so low why did you expect Bulgarians to not do the same. Turks get to turn themselves into a homogenous nation, but all Bulgaria can do is watch? Lmao Come on bro, 20th century was the century of nation building, assimilations and ethnic deportations were an incredibly common place and as wrong as they may seem from modern perspective the reality is that is has saved those nations literal decades if not centuries of future ethnic conflict and potential wars

It is like you not being allowed to use the name Tom but shit like Mehmed, Ahmed, Yusuf

@@mikethequestioningpineappl5083 I didn't understand what you said? I guess your native language is not English. If you explain it a little more clearly, I can understand you better.

Fr some ppl say its eye for an eye but ottoman empire never forced anyone to change their names

@Fahrecen Never forced to change religion and names, however religion brought more taxes on them and they had a strict no rebellion policy so they took children and raised them to be Janisarries(?) Which after their training and conversion they can just leave however some Sultans were still very cruel to cities that rebelled whilst some weren't I.e Vlad the Impaler was given 3 chances to fold(which he took before revolting again) and despite literally being so brutal towards soldiers and men of the Empire his population was spared