The Bulgarian Forced Assimilation of The Turks 1980s (Bulgarian History)

[@HistoryWithEm43]

There was terrorism done by Turks (supposedly sponsored by Turkey and/or Turkish organisations), in the early-mid 1980s. These attacks were mainly on train stations and used to justify the campaign, it seems. I should have mentioned them, but I only had 1 source ("A Short History of Modern Bulgaria" by RJ Crampton) for this and could'nt find anything more online. I've found it best not to use only 1 source for major events/points, so, since I could'nt find anything more, assumed Crampton was mistaken. I still do'nt think they justify what the government would do though If you want to try and educate people further in the comments. I suggest you use a source, but you will have to write it as a citation. And it can't be Wikipedia. If I did'nt explain anything where you could understand, comment and I'll explain it better. Or if you want to know specifically where I got my info, ask, and if I can refind it in my notes I'll let you know. I was going to use citations in the video, but was'nt able to.

[@ПламенИванов-у6е]

You are not mistaken, there truly were terrorist acts. One of them was the attack at train station Bunovo - you can check it out if you can find information about it. I am not justifing the repressions done by the rulers of our nation, I am just giving you more information

[@vasil.kamdzhalov]

The Revenge part as you said is your opnion which is okay, if I have to say what might have been. Hatred even if present and taught then as "an enemy capitalist state" or just historical, it couldnt produce enough hatred for action from the everyday bulgarian more like "ohh well they deserve it" but with no action. Bulgarians even when they were in the Ottoman empire and we negelcted by the state in so many ways have peaceful nature and just put up with it overall. The same nature transfered into the free state after 1878 but was willing to fight in the name of the nation and "rightful lands" ,now still malevolent action were rare occurence and more in nature to war. Bulgaria defended its jewish minority in WW2 even if culturally could be said that is as foreign. Animosity with turks is more of how unfair the whole experience it was in the ages and the feeling of what could have been, if bulgarians weren't conquered to begin with. BSP (BCP) as it was communist, socialist change in name after the fall of the regime, wanted to be like they big bros in the USSR and copied tactics and plans/goals for the nation from them, the more like thought like russian than anything. Patriotism was for the masses in my opinion. Good try to explain it in your way, I still think bulgarians dont have it in them to act on the small stuff and its a big buildup of ill moments to act on it, that energy died out after 3 major wars. There are so many examples that could have gone bad if it was any other nation or culture present, if you see the whole history in more modern times but it is quiet for a reason. Maybe if bulgarians were in power in most of their recent history they would have acted more smug and without the thought of the concequences but you know something when you have lived it for generations.

[@BulgarianNationalism]

For once, the bulgarian communist party actually protected bulgarian interests.

[@kalatapie]

My Aunt was a Teacher at the time of the "assimilation" and as such was forced to partake in the government's efforts. She recalls going to the house of an old Turkish Woman. The old woman invited her in, gave her tea and snacks, they chatted. My Aunt did not have the heart to tell her the reason she was there was to tell her she would need to replace her dead Husband's gravestone to display his new government-assigned name. Absolutely sickening..

[@daiana8827]

Ok

[@soldierbr8726]

tho the turks did many similar during the ottoman empire and even to to this day the turkish goverment still does cultural assimilation to some level, using that as a justification to target innocent turkish civilians is not only discusting but also not solving any problems at all and only making new ones while destroying the culture and lives of many people.

[@sollaariiss]

@@soldierbr8726 2 evils doesnt make 1 good! ❣

[@Wanwood2]

​@@soldierbr8726We shouldnt be tormenting innocent civillians for the crimes of upper government and military staff.

[@HriStorm_56]

@@soldierbr8726 exactly

[@Fahrecen]

Could you cover greek massacre of turkish cypriots that happened in 1960?

[@vasilisgm8966]

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

[@Fahrecen]

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

[@Fahrecen]

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

[@vasilisgm8966]

@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.

[@Fahrecen]

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

[@gokce9521]

My family are Turkish refugees from Bulgaria in the 30's. Apparently the only thing they brought from Bulgaria was a single sack and the clothes on their back. When they arrived in Turkey they were given what was essentially swamps near Edirne and they spent decades planting trees to make it like their old homes. My great grandmother spent years taking care of three children alone because her husband got drafted as soon as he arrived. I still own a soviet shaving machine from my grandfather that he bought from refugees coming in the 80's.

[@idrisasan766]

Bizim aile düzceye yerleşmiş

[@Vector21923]

My grandmother and grandfather wanted to go to Turkiye at that time, but they couldn't. I asked why, my grandfather said that it was necessary to renounce citizenship and because there were many people who wanted go to Turkiye. But my grandfather's 3 sisters went and now they are living in Bursa. Now my grandfather's sisters have dual citizenship and so do their children and their grandchildren.

[@nesarkwastaken]

Vasil Levski, our greatest and most popular national hero who helped a lot during our liberation movement, said that he wants a Bulgarian Republic where everybody is equal and co-exists, Turks and Bulgarians. Any real patriot would listen to him and protect the Turks in our republic, for they are our fellow citizens.

[@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist]

But Turks in general have become incredibly arrogant. And Constantinople and Rumelia wasn’t recovered. What to do?

[@ruzfech72]

Нека да си го кажем като българин на българин, реалността е много различна приятел. Това, че е било неморално, най-вероятно е така, но фактът е, че сега повечето турци заемат ниски позиции в държавата, или най-лошо са като циганите. Турците ако тогава са били повече от 300 000, сега щяха да са най-вероятно 500 000. Като българин, аз не желая в 6,5 милионна България почти 10% да са турци.

[@matadorer]

​@ruzfech72 И какъв е проблема като има повече турци?

[@erhansolhan9564]

@@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist Recover what and arrogant how? Do you seriously believe borders established from 571 years ago should matter today and need a change? Plus, over %15 of the country's population live in the European part of the country, let alone 16 million people in İstanbul.

[@ДимоЦолов]

Най-хубавото е,че и турците и циганите са спаднали като процент от населението. И по-добре да ги няма.​@ruzfech72

[@Mrachnitedoktrini]

As a Bulgarian I can say that the husband of a female colleague of my mother, who vehemently protested the Revival Process, disappeared without a trace in 1984.

[@luca_history]

Thank you for covering such an overlooked topic. When I first saw an ethnic map of the Balkans in the 1910s I wondered how the Turks on the Black Sea Coast and other parts of Bulgaria and Romania have been doing

[@Rai-Bulgaria]

This was the work of Zhivkov and the communists, most Bulgarians had nothing to so with it. A sad episode, yes.

[@notfunky9013]

You’re a turk settler living in Bulgaria, you’re not Bulgarian, you dont get a say

[@Rai-Bulgaria]

@@notfunky9013 No, I'm a Bulgarian living in Ohio. Close, though.😀

[@ognjenkuzeljevic1989]

See Serbia had same shit going on except we suffered WAY WAY more eventually...

[@flappley]

Brother this is brutally underrated for how good it is. this style is pretty different from others so i believe its gonna take off. well done man, subbed

[@ScavengerAli.]

whens the next video bro😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@flappley]

@@ScavengerAli. it's coming up bro dwwwww

[@goodiestudios5588]

My grandpa was one of the turks living in bulgaria. The day the bulgarian army came, all of the residents in the village he lived in gathered at the gates of the village to stand against the army. But to no avail since bulgarians later used guns to scare them away, 3 got killed 5 got injured. After that they gave them slavic name and surnames and forbid them to ever use turkish again. So half of the residents migrated to turkiye. Thanks for reading so far.

[@AOl-mi1ln]

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.

[@nesarkwastaken]

As a Bulgarian I agree to a big extent with this video. This is a topic that is barely discussed and barely anybody from my generation (Gen Z) knows about it, which I found horrendous. The reason I know about it is the internet, not because of school or something like that, my parents told me about it only after I initiated the conversation. Thank you for bringing light on it, for we must recognize our mistakes in the past in order to be better.

[@Badger_IV.]

These days whenever someone says Turk you get racist people (mostly uneducated kurds and armenians who think pkk is a good group) talk about how Turks are bad and they deserve to be cleansed While not looking at the past of the country and its people. (im not saying all kurds and armenians are racist. Though there is a loud minority which is from those groups that targets Turks)

[@AntonDDimov]

I see heroundeous the fact that the turks here dont care about the blood tax dont care about the barbaric killing and tape their ancestors did here that they now profit of and you say this ...what a joke ...they should feel lucky that our politicians are mostly still ottoman slaves otherwise they would have already seen justice prevail.

[@julianivanov3058]

This is possibly the worst crime Bulgaria as a state has ever committed, and it's one that has gone unpunished and mostly forgotten. Our society hasn't matured enough to be able to come to terms with this event accordingly. Had things played out a little differently, those responsible for these actions would've been tried at the Hague.

[@ianislavgeorgiev3525]

Yeah , remember all the Bulgarians the turks trew out of turkey , stories of my old family members say people were taking what they can and went to walk to bulgaria, babies and old people were stranded on the roads to god s mercy. Balkans are a cruel place, we can all cry about it but stuff happen for a reason. also during the name change my father was a kid and remembers turkish rebels trying to poison the water supply of their town , all the turks knew not to drink the water , they got caught and it was said they were turkish saboutuers that wanted to escalate the protests in to a conflict , we had a few times that we were on the verge of war between eachother during our comunist/socialist times

[@AtamanDural]

I am a descendant of one of those families from Razgrad, a region known for its vibrant Turkish, Tatar, and Cuman heritage alongside Slavs/Bulgars. My ancestors were among the many who faced the challenges of forced migration and cultural suppression during turbulent periods in history. Despite moving back to Türkiye, I often wonder if I have distant relatives who chose to remain in Bulgaria, adapting to the changing socio-political landscape while holding onto their cultural identity. The plight of Turks in Bulgaria, particularly during the Communist regime, involved forced assimilation policies, such as renaming campaigns, suppression of the Turkish language, and the closure of cultural institutions. Similarly, the Tatars of Russia endured severe repression under Soviet rule, including forced deportations, cultural erasure, and even genocide, as seen in the Crimean Tatar deportation of 1944. These historical injustices often remain overlooked in contemporary discourse, likely because Turks and Tatars are not perceived as part of the "Western" cultural or political narrative. However, these shared histories of resilience and survival are crucial to understanding the broader scope of ethnic and cultural repression in the 20th century. They also underscore the importance of preserving and amplifying these stories, ensuring that the voices of those who endured such hardships are heard and remembered. Interestingly, Turkic communities that practice Christianity are not affected as much as Muslim ones by such occasions. People with Gagauz and Cuman identities are integrated into their communities and accepted as minorities with no political turbulence except for Soviet policies of atheism, but this covered many religions. Turks have been secular for a long time, even though the world does not wish to see so. I hope in the future such stereotypical discrimination toward any nation will be perished in the dusty pages of history.

[@yagizcomedy]

The video editing is great,mistook it for a big channel for a second. Have my sub

[@_YouTube-User_]

Could you cover a similar event, being the expulsion of Greeks from Istanbul 1964-1965

[@adamelghalmi9771]

i feel like that was similar but different, nobody died (or none that we know of) but a large expulsion did occur

[@_YouTube-User_]

@@adamelghalmi9771 There may be no recorded casualty but people still got mutilated by the mobs

[@adamelghalmi9771]

@@_KZbin-User_ yea that is true, sad event that happened in history, for no real reason. but like for everything else bad about turkiye today, i blame kemal

[@_YouTube-User_]

@@adamelghalmi9771 I mean his predecessor Enver pasha wasn't the most tolerant either. Being accused of sponsoring the deaths of millions of Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and Christian Arabs during the late years of the Ottoman empire

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

and overall what the turks did in the balkans for 500 years

[@luca_history]

"There are no Turks in Bulgaria There have never been Turks in Bulgaria Bulgaria has always been Bulgarian"

[@testtester1012]

no bulgarians are turkish

[@HistoryWithEm43]

@testtester1012 no, they're South Slavs

[@asafatl3296]

Actually the original bulgars war Turkic

[@runtav_guz8564]

As a Bulgarian I can say this video is well researched and accurate, you also forgot to mention the Bulgarian Government commissioned a lot of propaganda against turks, through historically accurate movies about the ottoman empire and realtions between the Ottoman empire and Christian Bulgarian population, the biggest example of this being the film "Time of Violence".

[@CorgiDynamics]

this is truly sad. thank you for bringing light to this.

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

also sad what the turks did to us

[@CorgiDynamics]

@thecommenterrrrrrr I assume you are Bulgarian. However, I do not understand what you mean. I understand that the Turks did, not funny stuff, to Bulgarians but may you explain what they did? I'm an American who likes history and geography.

[@SecureInMyHead]

As sad as Latinos assimilating the United States

[@RLDragonStrider]

@@CorgiDynamics Look for a book called "Turkish attrocities in Bulgaria" by Irish-American war correspondent Janiarius Macgahan and give yourself a taste of life in the Balkans.

[@CorgiDynamics]

@@RLDragonStrider ok!

[@ХотелКорона]

Turks in Bulgaria are some of the most hardworking and honest people, we bulgarians have very good relations with them, and trust me - the commoner at the time was totally against these actions but couldn't do anything.

[@АлександърПенчев-с2х]

Overall, a great video. I would like to point out some other things too, as I live in northern Bulgaria where we have a large Turkish minority. Firstly, there was the propaganda. The party was encouraging xenophobia and racism to create a us vs. them mentality in the population from a young age, and the Turkish minority was the perfect subject to exercise that way of thinking due to our long history. Nowadays, people aren't harboring the same emotions, though some older individuals still use jokes and expressions that are racist. Secondly, there was terrorism and actual growing fears in the government, as there were several terrorist attacks provoked by the revival process. As my father recalls, the train stations were heavily guarded by the military, which was unusual. These events were, of course, swept under the rug by the authorities. Thankfully, things didn’t escalate to the worst, especially with the growth of radical Islam during that period and the years following the fall of the USSR.

[@HistoryWithEm43]

I did'nt know for sure about the terrorist attacks at the time. I only had one source saying they happened and could'nt find more info. Since then tho I have found more information, and have made a community post and now updated the pinned comment

[@zweihandersarecool5929]

bulgaria "chose" communism? good joke

[@commenterthe3rd]

good video, I enjoyed it a lot as a Türk I also like how neutural you were, your sound quality can be improved though

[@HistoryWithEm43]

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

[@sos4i]

Although this was a, by some views, cruel thing to do, it was necessary. Imagine if those 10%, which by now would have been probably more, were Turkish today. Turkey would use this as an excuse and try to spread their influence. If a country wants to exists they can't have a more populated, more powerful and overall stronger neighbor trying to actively start a war or a riot in the country. And that's without mentioning the cruelties the Turks did in Bulgaria in these hundreds of years (As a Bulgarian myself I have read a lot about life in those times, the Turks weren't tolerant at all). Forcefully settling in Bulgarian lands ,taking children, making them kill their mothers, turning them in the most savage soldiers. I know people say to forget that, with which I do agree since this is not quite the case anymore (that's excluding the situations with the Armenians and Kurds), but they still need to pay at least a little bit, in this case to leave or to convert.

[@tunakoseoglu9388]

They are dual citizens, they can vote and come, settle any time they want.

[@Fahrecen]

@@sos4i the assimilation ottoman empire did was nothing compared to other countries did a example of this is europan colonisers just erasing the native americans from the continent

[@kevincastillomorales4858]

@FahrecenThats not true, the native americans didnt deserve what they got, the turks? 100% they did and more

[@CinnamonMint123]

youtube algorythms loves you

[@VaderAurelius]

i mean original history of the bulgaria is from volga bulgars that migrated to europe by western hun so they are turkic but slavicized

[@mr.battledroid2195]

turks weren't even supposed to be there in the first place, because bulgaria was turkified during turkish rule

[@HistoryWithEm43]

"Bulgarians weren't even supposed to be there in the first place, they stole the land from the Thracians"

[@Lucas_07-PL]

​@@HistoryWithEm43cry about it, all Turks should have been expelled from Bułgaria

[@SpaceMarine500]

@@HistoryWithEm43No Thracians alive today to lay a claim on the land.

[@Normal_difficulty69]

​​@@SpaceMarine500We all come from the same ancestor if we look back enough whats your point, theres no true owner of a land and theyre a very recent owner of it.

[@stalkerentertainment3671]

Dude, some ancestors of Bulgarians came from a Turkic people group from the Volga region, what are you talking about? By your logic the Bulgarians shouldn't be there since they are just slavicized Bulgars. This is also from where their name comes from! *Bulgar* ria!

[@matadorer]

It's good that in modern day we get along and almost nobody cares about if you're a turk or not

[@Badger_IV.]

You sure? There are so many savages that thinks today's Turks should be cleansed for simply being Turkic. (Looking directly at PKK supporters)

[@achimkunisch8619]

The Italians did the same thing to the Germans in soulth Tyrol.

[@maxstenzel1797]

After spending years on the internet the only think I know is that literally every single country on this Earth is Turkish according to a Turk living in Berlin.

[@ISLAMMEHMEDOF-jt8iy]

What the heck are you talking about this land in Bulgaria belongs to Me from my Father who got it from his Father who got it from his Father we have lived in Bulgaria way before germany was created almost 700 years

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

Now do a video about what the turks were doing to the Bulgarians for 500 years

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

@@Badger_IV. well they took forcefully young boys from their families and made them join the turkish army and convert to islam

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

but the parents of these children werent happy because they will never see their children again

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

@@Badger_IV. they still changed the children's names (just like the revival process for the turks) and their religion was changes which is also very serious all without the will of the people. The Christians were heavily discriminated and of the examples are the very high taxes they had to pay which led to many converting to islam just because so they can pay their taxes. Lots of important Bulgarian books were burned.

[@HistoryWithEm43]

I could now I saw this as more important to do since it was recent and people still are effected by it, more so than what happened to the Bulgarians. It was only 40 years ago

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

@@HistoryWithEm43 can you please also make a video about the Bulgarian side?

[@chrdiloet]

love the art and maps can you make video about georgia

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Thank you I may make a video about the state or nation some-day (probably never the island tho). But that will have to be a-while in the future. I'm currently bogged down with projects that focus on Bulgaria and the Balkans

[@chrdiloet]

@@HistoryWithEm43 thank you i ment the country id be glad to see a video about it in the feuture for the time being im intrested in your balkin videos as well please cover slovenia i feel like they are more patriotic then they let on

[@ruzfech72]

Alright, let me give you an actual explanation of what happened. First of all, yes, turkish names where changed. There was voluntary and involuntary deportation(my family has friends who VOLUNTARY chose to go to Turkey). The one's who didn't oblige were sent to prison as is in any other country. Bulgaria signed a decree with Turkey for X number of deportations however the government send X+Y which was actually the problem because the turkish economy couldn't maintain so many people at once, building houses , etc. However, for realists I would say that is was quite the good move in such situation. The turks didn't occupy any important place in the development of the country, nor do they now. On the last election, our medias interviewed the Turkish people deported to Istanbul(there were deported the most) and close to nobody knew what they were voting for. It is just an easily manipulated system.

[@adidoki]

So if the ottoman empire decided to change bulgarian family names of ending with -ov to end with -oglum forbid the bulgarian language, killed those or imprisoned those who didn´t oblige, what would your reaction to that be? We didn´t do half of those things and yet we are hated for it.

[@ruzfech72]

@adidoki hahah wait a moment here, you are absolutely incorrect my friend. Bulgarian names were changed. Whether you oblige somebody to change their name or tell them that if they don't change it they will become slaves( рая), there isn't really a major difference, is there? Many Bulgarians had to change their names during the centuries, including the aristocratic families and the nobleman as this was the only way to maintain their social status. The slaves were killed and tortured pretty much everywhere in the ottoman empire, mostly in the Balkans though. I see you are quite uneducated on the problem. Ask any serb, Greek, Macedonian, Bulgarian and you will always end with the same response. You, maybe you didn't do it, but your ancestors did more than needed.

[@muzarisi]

Same here, stupid Turks in Germany vote for that one party who i should not name for my own good. For some reason Turks abroad tend to be more religious than nationalist. Extreme nationalism is also bad too but the last thing I want is an Islamic rule here

[@ardamadanoglu]

The story of my parents... 🇧🇬🇹🇷

[@HansTheAustronesian]

4:16 “There is no war in Ba Sing Se” ahh slogan

[@berry1485]

I‘m Turkish and my great-grandparents immigrated from Bulgaria to Turkey

[@ЯниЕдрев]

As someone who has loved in Bulgaria for 17 years (my whole life).I can say that at least among the people i speak to there doesn't seem to be much animosity or racism towards turks it is mostly directed toward the roma minority. However i may also have a biased sample set. Also from some of your comments and in-video text I can see that you use "are'nt" "does'nt" and similar stuff over "aren't" and "doesn't". As far as im aware the latter is correct but if im wrong please correct me.

[@HistoryWithEm43]

I could'nt be sure about the racism today. From the Bulgarians I've spoken to online, there has been a sad number of them who are against the Turks. And I've spoken to others who say that it's somewhat of an issue today You're correct, I don't use proper text grammar. It's a bad habit. But by now I think helps me stand out, though I do'nt know. It may make me look stupid

[@ЯниЕдрев]

@@HistoryWithEm43 I can't really argue much on the issue. After some thought im probably in an area of the country where there isn't much animosity towards them. There is a sizable population around here. So its much harder to hate someone you know and that type of stuff. About the grammar i don't think its a major issue imo. Also keep up the work👍

[@ЯниЕдрев]

Im in a pretty progressive family too 😅 so that may affect my perception of those around me.

[@matadorer]

​@@HistoryWithEm43almost nobody cares if you're a turk or not

[@Badger_IV.]

Todays bulgarians arent that racist. Of course there will be some bad apples but the racism seems to have deceased for the most part. I think next would be armenians? They seem to be calming down about the Turk-Armenian problems in the past

[@Dabosanskiaminer]

So u will make videos about Bulgarians caring for not becoming a minority in their own country(rare) but u won't make videos for what happened with the Bulgarians in this ,, hundreds of years" under turkish slavery

[@HistoryWithEm43]

The Bulgarians were no-where near becoming a minority. And even if they did. So what? So what that one ethnic group is more prominent? And who says I wo'nt make a video about when the Ottoman Turks ruled over Bulgaria? Not true slavery and not the modern Turks

[@yazovgaming]

@@HistoryWithEm43 "So what?" So Bulgaria becomes a Turkish nation and the identity is lost. I am sorry but this is a very basic and one sided video and very disappointing.

[@MtiuliBichi]

@@HistoryWithEm43 "So what if you become a minority in your own country" 💀

[@bugmanzgaming9054]

Yeah, Bulgaria did an oopsie, but we are just brushing over the fact that those people, who claim to be of Turkish origin, were completely treated like utter shit and had to endure below standart living conditions when their home country took them back? Same home country who rejected them as Turks and labeled them as gypsies, and left it all to Bulgaria to deal with this problem. Both states are at fault. Bulgarians comitted atrocities, but none of that would have happened if Turkey simply took back their people and treated them as such instead of slaves.

[@adidoki]

Are you like, dumb? In 1984 turkey was recovering from a CIA sponsored coup where an actual democracy was allowed again, the PKK was causing major issues in the west and the economy was in shambles. So how can this country suddenly take in hundreds of thousands of turks, just because Bulgaria said so? You also realize that what bulgaria committed would be considered a genocide as well, right? Turks have been in bulgaria for 1450 years, the name Bulgaria being a turkic name itself brought to you by turkic khagans when we first conquered the balkans. Why don´t bulgarians go back to Ukraine where slavs came from? That is how stupid your proposition is

[@bgcvetan]

3 things. 1) The Balkan Entante against the Bulgarians, Albanians. 2) The lack of persecution against the Muslims compared to other faiths after the start of the communist occupation in 1945. 3) The event was highly unpopular and started the downfall of the Regeme.

[@HistoryWithEm43]

[1] So what about the Balkan Entente? Genuinely I do'nt see what does a loose political alliance that ended before the main events of the video have to do with this? [2] Can you show a source for that? I did'nt look much into other religious groups during the Communist era. Though, I have'nt heard of any kind of campaigns against people such as the Catholics and Jews by the Communists, which happened against the Turks and Muslims. [3] I know near the end it became unpopular and helped with the fall of the Communist Government. But from what I understand, in the earlier days of the campaign (after it was known atleast) people did'nt care about it. I've read that and have been told such by Bulgarians, that they did'nt care at first since it was happening to the Turks, not them. I'm not claiming to know everything, and will change my opinions and add notes if I am shown to be wrong about anything

[@collegepark301]

Bulgarian persecution against muslims happened even before ww2, Ataturk has sent a brigade in places the turks got persecuted during his reign

[@OkachaWasTaken]

Taking revenge on the common people for actions done by the ottoman sultans hundred years ago, I don't know why you tried to justify the bulgarian actions at the end of the video.

[@HistoryWithEm43]

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

[@janetyanchewa8246]

I am from the Kurjali region. It isnt really spoken much and I fear people are gonna forget this. My parents had to change their name. My father was in the mandatory military service and told me they didnt give turks any guns they did the dirty job like digging trenches. They tried to flee the country but where unsuccessful because there were hundreds of thousands that tried to do the same and there where huge traffic jams. Thankfully we still live here

[@tonyjoka2346]

Bruh it's not like the turks didn't commit mass atrocities of their own they invaded not the other way around

[@ISLAMMEHMEDOF-jt8iy]

As Balkan Turk how was born in Bulgaria i thank you for making this video half of my family was sent to concentration camp in Belene, except for my Father, no one else returned there last words were Във Гроба ште флаза но имито ми българско няма да направя Translate to. I rather died then make my name bulgarian Mezara gireceğim ama adımı Bulgar yapmayacağım

[@daiana8827]

Go home

[@GoshoTatar]

idi si fkeshti togava

[@ISLAMMEHMEDOF-jt8iy]

@daiana8827 this is my Home you idiot

[@ISLAMMEHMEDOF-jt8iy]

​@GoshoTatar LoL this land belongs to me from my Father who got it from his Father and he from his Father this land was awer for 700 years

[@mikethequestioningpineappl5083]

​@@daiana8827Anime profile, opinion rejected

[@BringBackCyrillicBG]

Werent those turks already previously turkified bulgarians who we call pomaks ? What Bulgaria did is called factory reset lol

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Some were Turkified Bulgarians. Many were people descendant straight from Anatolia. I show in the video that many were from Anatolia What if we "factory reseted" Bulgarians and made them all Africans?

[@id-f8679]

I am pretty sure most of them were actual Turks whose ancestors migtated from Anatolia with Ottoman Empire's "iskân" policy.

[@mikethequestioningpineappl5083]

No this is called a genocide, dumbass

[@shankprovider4851]

And people are still saying that it was all "FaIr AnD gOoD bAcK iN thOsE DaYs"

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Wikipedia and Fandom articles are not valid sources. You can't use those to back your claims. If you're going to try and help educate people you need to use valid sources and WRITE THEM AS CITATIONS, since YT automatically blocks links posted by commenters. Just wanted to make sure everyone knows that! :)

[@HCG95]

Humans are so silly…. Bulgars are literally Turks 😂

[@HistoryWithEm43]

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

[@rewriting-history]

As a Bulgarian, I appreciate this video. Never put the dots together of the Cyprus war in 1974 and how Bulgaria responded to their Turkish population in the coming years. Regarding your last point of Bulgarians doing it for revenge, I find it plausible. Any Bulgarian grandparents alive today have negative view of the Turkish people, unless they are Turkish themselves, and I mean ANY. So, when these grandparents were young adults in their 20s, they most likely held the same extreme anti-Turkish views they do now. These people were thought to hate the Turkish people and were generally greatly brainwashed by the communists. I won't be surprised if Bulgaria did this to take revenge, but also the majority of the population most likely supported it, as these people are still alive today and hate the Turkish people.

[@kokivunched504]

500 years do u think is that easy to forgive

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Why should you have to forgive people who have never done you wrong? The modern Turks did'nt do what the Ottomans did. They did some minor attacks, but nothing compared tow hat you are saying

[@kokivunched504]

@HistoryWithEm43 maybe not everyone is that innocent don't u think maybe some political people in turkey want that emipre back it's a possible that doesn't have to ignore and if u think about it 500 years it's too much for a country to be occupied

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Maybe some do, so what? The Turkish people are'nt doing you harm. Bulgaria was'nt "occupied" it simply stopped existing for those roughly 500 years as a country

[@kokivunched504]

@@HistoryWithEm43 and u take it like it was nothing do u know how many many people died from their abuse

[@HistoryWithEm43]

No one knows how many, it's impossible to know. But it was many.... I in no way am taking it like it's nothing. You're putting an opinion on me that is'nt my own

[@TeoDobleP]

I'm Bulgarian, my family is mostly ethnic Bulgarians, but I have a small fraction of my family being Bulgarian-Turks, people internationally don't know much about this ethnicity, so I find it very cool that you are talking about them.

[@fishconnoisseur]

I have very mixed feelings about Turkish mistreatment by the Bulgarian government. Bulgarians nearly became a minority in their own homeland in a similar way as Greeks did in Anatolia and Thrace, and these atrocities reversed this, effectively freeing the nation, but at the same time from an objective perspective; ethnic cleansing is ethnic cleansing. Colonizers or not a majority were undoubtedly innocent.

[@adidoki]

Do you have mixed feelings about turkish atrocities against armenians, kurds and greek since what you describe was the same for us becuse anatolia was multi-ethnic and turks weren´t that large of a group. armenians and greeks together could nearly outnumber the amount of turks in all major cities. Had we not done the atrocities my nation couldn´t be free, so are your feelings mixed then?

[@mikethequestioningpineappl5083]

Would you support a genocide against white Americans? What about Hispanics or Afro-Cubans?

[@muzarisi]

​@@adidokiI agree with her, maybe at the time it wouldn't seem so but after winning the war, we didn't have to do all that, coexisting is a thing.

[@asjsjbsps]

nice instead of being a racist youre a racist-lite!!!!!!

[@nikolaykaradzhiev1889]

The reasoning you gave at the end is wrong. There are two main reasons behind the ethnic cleansing campaign: 1. A measure to distract from the failing system and control the transition, the very same happened in Yugoslavia etc. Elsewhere like Poland and Czechia where the communists failed to take the nationalist position - they were wiped out during the transition, whereas in Bulgaria, Serbia etc where they took the nationalist position - they remain in power to this day. 2. A mandate from Moscow to give ethnic assimilation such as this a trial run, as the USSR was

[@HistoryWithEm43]

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

[@Trader-gt2co]

Well, you're talking it as communism is bad. Also saying about nationalism being common in socialist states. Remind you, they where revisionists.

[@HistoryWithEm43]

I do'nt remember specificaly saying Communism is bad. I tried to keep that opinion to myself. And, I could be wrong, but I would say nationalism is quite common in socialist states. From what I've read, they tend to grow the idea of "us" vs "them", sticking together under their nation, and fighting against the enemy. Which, from what I've seen usually is other people and nations, not just Capitalism

[@Yanko_Partizanksi]

My grandfather told me that he got his first car around that time. A red Lada 2107. When the government opened the borders with Turkey, a Turkish family came to him with a suitcase of money to buy his Lada so they could flee to Turkey. My grandfather refused because he had waited too long to get that car, although the money in the suitcase was enough to buy 2 Volga's he said.

[@yigitcanozturk8475]

I'm also Bulgarian-Turk assimilated by Ottoman Turks. Somehow, our assimilation process was not as brutal as that of the Bulgarians. I have third-generation cousins who consider themselves Bulgarians with Slavic names, and I also have second and first generation cousins who think they are fully Central Asian Turks with Turkish-Islamic names. Obviously, we know the truth, but who cares? We are proud Turks, and they are proud Bulgarians now. End of the topic.

[@yigitcanozturk8475]

​@@mitk1 I don't have any central asian dna, I'm ethnically bulgarian. Dna test tells that I'm %65 greek and balkani nations and %35 gypsy (south asian). Romani greek or romani bulgarian simply. Later our ancestors have migrated to Turkey, assimilated willingly during decades under Turkish rule. Y dna results also tells me, my ancient forefathers (from my father's side) had a slav origin thousands years ago. Summary of my family is originally a slavic family mixed with some gypsy families and greek families and their descendants converted to Islam during Ottoman era. Excluded from balkans due to Bulgarian racism and wars. Became Turks under Turkish rule.

[@yazovgaming]

@@mitk1 Exactly

[@prussia77]

so a PUPPET state does shit, cool, who was puppeting it?

[@HistoryWithEm43]

If I remember right I said basically. The USSR They weren't a true puppet, but Zhivkov and the regime was heavily influenced by Moscow. So I say it's safe to call them 'basicaly' a puppet, and I've heard actual historians say so Edit: spelling

[@prussia77]

@HistoryWithEm43 ok

[@NoobHammer]

sorry

[@chrisdude119]

yeah, but now do a video about what the turks have done to the Bulgarians for 500 years...

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Not have been doing, what they did. And not the modern Turks, the Ottomans The Ottomans have'nt done anything to the Bulgarians since the 1870s. And the modern Turks have done hardly anything. And it's stupid to lump the people together as a monolith of the "Turks" anyway You're comment reads like a racist excuse for ethnic violence and hatred

[@mitk1]

@@HistoryWithEm43 What about the ethnic cleansing of Bulgarians in Thrace after Second Balkan War? About 100-150k were killed and around 200k were kicked out of their homes.

[@chrisdude119]

@@HistoryWithEm43 the turks have been killing innocent people in the balkans from 1350 up to the 1850s, and even after that, the "modern" turks have done multiple genocides in the 1900s: the Armenian genocide, the pontic greek genocide and the Assyrian genocide. The turks have also invaded and killed people in Cyprus too, in 1974 and in Libya and Syria in the recent years, so the turks have a solid tradition in killing innocent people. It seems that you have forgotten how much the Bulgarian people have suffered under the turks... Sad!

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

@@HistoryWithEm43 You calling the Bulgarians "Africans" is also racist..

[@HistoryWithEm43]

@thecommenterrrrrrr No it's not, we all come from Africa. Tell me how it's racist

[@Hsbgg]

Damn now let’s talk about all the genocides the Turks did

[@OkachaWasTaken]

You're saying that with a Croatia pfp?

[@lavishx_]

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

[@Fahrecen]

Now lets talk about all the genocides balkans did

[@Hsbgg]

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

[@Hsbgg]

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

[@БоянМихов-м9э]

We Bulgarians are extremely sorry for this. We fight against corruption and authoritarian oligarchs so that this never happens again.

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

Турците дали съжаляват за това, което са вършели за 500 години?

[@itz_ic21gaming97]

​@thecommenterrrrrrrНедей да оправдаваш действията на БКП. Две злини не правят едно добро.

[@yazovgaming]

Говори сам за себе си, нямам нито един грам симпатия към "турците".

[@Fahrecen]

@thecommenterrrrrrr the assimilation that ottoman empire did was nothing compared to what other europan countries did example; europan colonisers just erased native americans from the continent

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

@Fahrecen Doesn't dismiss my point that you did terrible thing to us, i dont care how it is "nothing" compared to the other european countries, the fact is that we did way less to you than what you did to us which you were doing for 500 years

[@mihailnikoloff2554]

After Bulgaria gained its freedom in 1878, there was no repression over the Turkish population, they lived peacefully until Bulgaria became occupied by the Soviet Union in 1944, after that the Communists did what you show on the video, so don't blame all Bulgarians for what a certain regime did. Also....500 years of opression under the Ottoman Empire, numerous massacres over the Bulgarian population i think is enough reason for Bulgarians to expell every single turk from their land if they want to, but we're not like this, don't make it out like Bulgarians are racists, because we're not.

[@HistoryWithEm43]

There was repression under the Monarchist regimes before the Communists. There were name change campaigns, and the Bulgarian gov tried to kick Turks out. Not much, but it did happen. It was'nt just the Communists. I was'nt trying to make it seem like the Bulgarian people were the one's doing this. I did my best to show it was the BCP. And that last bit, dude... Do you really think that's ok? That kicking out people who have done nothing wrong just because their ancestors did something is ok? There are some Bulgarians who are racist. I've spoken to quite a few of you, some who are racist and some who have told me some of you are. Though I know most of you are'nt.

[@mihailnikoloff2554]

@@HistoryWithEm43 Source: Trust me bro. No Turks wasn't kicked out during the Monarchist regime. There was re-christianization of the Pomaks which are Bulgarian Muslims, but that wasn't aimed at the Turkish minority. Ataturk was one of the biggest friends of Bulgaria. Also yes I do believe the Turks have no right to bitch about repressions when they tortured our people for centuries, something you as a foreigner cannot understand nor comprehend.

[@HistoryWithEm43]

I can comprehend repression and torture. I may not be Bulgarian, but I'm part of 2 minority groups in America. Part native American and another group I won't say Native Americans were treated miserabley by the American gov. And the other group still are repressed here. I face repression, bullying and have been assaulted. But would I want to repress people who have repressed me? Or their descendants *who have done nothing*? No. Because I have human decency and respect for other people :) Oh, and why would I need to show a source when you refuse to show sources? I will show one, if you would like, or if someone else asks. But when I ask you for your sources you never reply Edit: originally said children, not descendants. And added some extra info

[@mihailnikoloff2554]

@@HistoryWithEm43 I think you have every right to be angry as a Native American because they exterminated your people, identity and history. Which is kind of similiar to what happened with Bulgarians under the Ottoman Empire between 1396-1878. Look I don't hate Turks in real life, but i'm tired of them trying to be the victims, while not even aknowledging what their ancestors did to mine.

[@bacepesho]

@@HistoryWithEm43 Did the americans butcher babies on bayonets and throw them in burning houses like the turks did.

[@Cinoci900]

They were afraid of our Western Thrace Turkish Republic, Bulgarians do not deserve those regions.

[@ISLAMMEHMEDOF-jt8iy]

You are right but we also don't want to be part of Turkey when we run for salvation and refuge in Turkey the Turks there were treated us worst so we deserve to be independent country only for BALKAN TURKS

[@Cinoci900]

@@ISLAMMEHMEDOF-jt8iy Kurt kışı atlatır lakin yediği ayazı unutmaz yiğenim

[@ISLAMMEHMEDOF-jt8iy]

@@Cinoci900 ve bunun için asla Türkiye'nin bir parçası olmayacağız çünkü bütün Türkler sizin gibi 😡🤬

[@LemurEater]

turks dont deserve thse regions either because they arnt native to thrace

[@HistoryWithEm43]

@LemurEater there are Turks who are native to Thrace, many

[@reconscout2238]

The name bulgar is literally derrived from the turkic tribe bulgars who gave their name to the region the turks were there before the slavic bulgarians ever was and any bulgaian turk that sill sees bulgaria as his homeland are those who sell their blood and identity the rumelian turks real homeland is rumelia no bulgaria turk there should try to seperate

[@Daniel-jm7ts]

slavs inhabited bulgaria before the bolgar turks arrived and before them the thracians also inhabited these lands. the turks came as the last people

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Yes, the name "Bulgaria" does come from the Turkic tribe. But, from what I understand Slavs and some Greeks lived in what is now Bulgaria before the Bulgar Turks invaded. So the Turks were'nt there first... And even before the Slavs and Greeks there were the Thracians and maybe groups that have'nt been discovered yet

[@ruzfech72]

There is no Turks who think of Bulgaria for their homeland, at least in the concept of the bulgar tribes. That's the same as saying that some French may think of themselves as Gauls. Just showing a bad example

[@sos4i]

@@HistoryWithEm43 To be honest the origin of the name is completely unknown(it does have a lot of theories though). Even the origin of the Bulgars is not known, as there are a lot of theories, some say we were Thracians that wandered through Asia only to settle here again, others say that we were very ancient and come from a long lost empire. Whatever the case it's basically impossible to find out the truth, because the Bulgarians assimilated part of the Slavic culture and people, so my theory is that whichever people they met they took part of their culture and people, and in doing that they changed a little by a little, so it's now impossible to find it their true origins.

[@yazovgaming]

iranic* tribe

[@CinnamonMint123]

you should also know the assimilation of albanians in serbia and montenegro. The orthodox christians became serbs and muslims became bosniaks

[@krum1703]

I actually come from one of the Muslim areas of Bulgaria. Didn't get many horror stories at the time, mainly that Islam had to be practiced in secret.

[@germansteven719]

As someone who heard stories and is from this minority i would like to say I love Bulgaria it's a beautiful nation. I do not blame bulgarians since it wasnt them but the communists.Hell ever my best friends are bulgarians but in a communist society this like this happen so for me its normal.Take for explample what the Soviets did in Ukraine. but I still love the culture and food of Turkey and the Balkans. Also happy new year to whoever is reading my comment

[@İzmir_city_state_republic]

This topic could be related to me? Because my mother side of family are bulgaria immigrants

[@markojovanovski3372]

Do one for the Macedonian Jews

[@blagoevski336]

Sad

[@FrankJ222]

original bulghars were turkic

[@mnd9166]

Bolghars and Bulgarians are different. Unlike Oghuz Turks that came in mass to places like anatolia, thrace and caucauses. Bolghars were only a group of military men and royals that ruled over modern day bulgaria, people were always slavs. And sure Bolghar culture being the ruling culture for a while did affect modern bulgarian culture but not to an effect that they would be called "the original bulghars".

[@FrankJ222]

@ Originated from the same group, yes current bulgarians are not really bolghars but their predecessors were. Likely due to their migration and relative xenophillia they were able to mold into this slavic culture.

[@Badger_IV.]

​@@mnd9166dont current bulgarians and some countries from balkans come from Huns?

[@Aleks_bulgarian]

“We were Turkic and shiietzz” ahh😭🙏🏻

[@daiana8827]

We ware never turkic stop crying

[@krosis7955]

You need to comment how the Turks held a mayors head and tried to take over multiple cities for Turkey! They were given weapons from Turkey! Don't comment without knowing the full story!

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Source?

[@ISLAMMEHMEDOF-jt8iy]

Hey man stopped lying

[@Fahrecen]

@@HistoryWithEm43 McDonald's menu

[@thecommenterrrrrrr]

@Fahrecen your sources are from there

[@HistoryWithEm43]

@thecommenterrrrrrr Can *you* show a source? Or are you just going to continue to be an arrogant troll?

[@TheFishee]

im a half bulgarian half turkic person and im glad my ancestors left bulgaria

[@Mrachnitedoktrini]

Oh, the Revival Process..

[@Tom.tom123-i7t]

What a cruelty it is to forcefully change people's names...

[@mikethequestioningpineappl5083]

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

[@Tom.tom123-i7t]

@@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.

[@Fahrecen]

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

[@mikethequestioningpineappl5083]

@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

[@rafakrzentowski9549]

It could be named simply "the revenge"

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Pardon?

[@rafakrzentowski9549]

@@HistoryWithEm43 *it, no i

[@adidoki]

Since you took your revenge, it´s time for me to take revenge right? An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth,

[@Random66860]

Revenge based on what?

[@chestermartinez6659]

Certainly the lose of identity , culture and language isn't good, however is not so bad considered the treatment of minorities in Turkey particularly the Armenian genocide.

[@HistoryWithEm43]

An eye for an eye makes the world blind

[@stalkerentertainment3671]

You are the only Westerner that talks about this while often many people even Turks overlooked it. I remember the history of Naim Süleymanoğlu who fled Communist Bulgaria during a competition in Australia. Imagine having your identity and culture taken from you yet they still expect you to win in competitions. He also exposed the BCP's forced assimilation and atrocities in the UN assembly which led to opening the borders for Bulgarian Turks to flee towards Türkiye. Hopefully it doesn't repeat and not only to the Turks but all minorities in countries. Thank you for talking about it and stay frosty!

[@mikethequestioningpineappl5083]

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

[@Kilgorio]

Wow

[@МихаилМатеев-р5ф]

Lamo not turkish as a bulgarian pomak i can say that pomak people like me are not turkish our native language is bulgarian but some people are stupid and tho belive that are turkish some pepole have arabic turkish iraq and another muslium naems because of the ottoman empire there is a lot of propaganda by a government party cald (дпс) dps they make propaganda that pomaks like me are turks not true just in short no turkey pepole in bulgaria just propaganda so Turkey can have the ottoman empire me personally my name is turkish but my native language is bulgarian i don't speak turkish and i have realised that you should love you're country and thats it and if some pomak pepole like me are watching this just read or history dont belive the crap that dps talks and also this government party is very corrupt they give us money tho vote and some peoople are very poor and don't have an option and they vote for this government party in conclusion we the pomaks which means a bulgarian who was forced tho accept the islam or he would be killed we are not turkish but there has been so much propaganda and some people belive that crap and also i don't like that pomak crap i want tho be called a bulgarian but it's just stuipid proganda getting my bulgarian orthodox name will be an awesome thing and i am looking foward tho it with goods help of course the one and only jesus christ the true good

[@HistoryWithEm43]

@@МихаилМатеев-р5ф there are many Turks in Bulgaria, and Pomaks. Just because you don't identify as either doesn't mean either don't exist

[@МихаилМатеев-р5ф]

@HistoryWithEm43 maybe you didnt understand what i meant i am a pomak (pomak means a bulgarian who was forced tho accept the islamic religion by the ottoman empire )who founded the truth and my friend there is no turks in in bulgaria pepole just learn turkish like gypsy and some pomaks know it

[@HistoryWithEm43]

@@МихаилМатеев-р5ф No, there are Turks. I have many sources to show that, including government censuses. And have spoken to some Bulgarian Turks. There are, in-fact many Bulgarian Turks, who are ethnic Turks from Anatolia, raised Muslim and with Turkish culture

[@ISLAMMEHMEDOF-jt8iy]

​@@МихаилМатеев-р5фyou are not pomace stop lying

[@МихаилМатеев-р5ф]

@HistoryWithEm43 well on this i agree with you but the pomaks pepole are not turkish our ancestors were Islamisaed by the ottoman empire

[@boran2796]

If what balkan people did to Turks in 50 years, Turks did to them in 500 years under Ottoman's. There would only be Turks left in Balkans and Anatolia

[@HistoryWithEm43]

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

[@georgios_5342]

Turkey literally massacred and genocided all of its Christian ethnic minorities, killing millions in cold blood in the most violent way possible. I think that's a tad bit worse than what Bulgaria did 😢

[@HistoryWithEm43]

Would it be justice to murder the grandchild of someone who killed 10 people? No. You can't punish a child for the actions of the forefather. That is disgusting, and that is what you are insinuating

[@Fahrecen]

@georgios_5342 turkish cypriots got massacred by christian greeks Greek genocide of turkish ppl in izmir in 1920 are some genocides made by "christian minorities" With cold blood

[@mikethequestioningpineappl5083]

Then how are there Christians in Bulgaria?

[@100liestotaly9]

@@mikethequestioningpineappl5083 lots fled to the mountains and lived in secret places or pretended to be muslim to avoid things like the blood tax

[@epiccrusadr8583]

Average balkan activities

[@developerbs]

*They are Turks. bulgarian peopa are Turks.*