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Türkân Bebek is one of the symbols of resistance against the forced assimilation policies implemented in the 1980s targeting the Muslim minority in Bulgaria. On 26 December 1984, during a peaceful protest in together with her family when she was 17 months old, Türkân lost her life after being shot by security forces opening fire fire.Historical Context: The Revival Process and Forced AssimilationThe “Revival Process” led by Todor Zhivkov of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) transformed into a

Flowers Grow is a novel by Emine Işınsu that addresses the repression and assimilation experienced by the Turkish minority in Bulgaria during the second half of the 20th century. The work was written in 1978 and subsequent editions have been published by Elips Kitap (Istanbul, 2008, 4th edition) and Bilge Kültür Sanat (Ankara, 2015). The edition published by Bilge Kültür Sanat contains 479 pages and is divided into four parts. At the beginning of the book, the author dedicates it to her father w

The Forced Migration of Turks from Bulgaria was the culmination of the systematic assimilation policies pursued by Bulgaria’s totalitarian communist regime against the Turkish minority living in the country, resulting in hundreds of thousands of people being compelled to migrate en masse to Türkiye, their ancestral homeland. During this process, over 300,000 Bulgarians of Turkish origin left their country to preserve their ethnic, cultural, and religious identity. This migration had profound soc