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Resistance of Turkish Minority in Bulgaria

Vildane Dinç (Bulgarian passport Alieva, Vildane) and Artum Dinc, conducting a video interview with Ürküş Akarsu (Bulgarian passport - Silvia Angelova). 30 December 2014, Bursa.
The collection was established in the period from 2010 to 2016. It includes personal memories and materials of members of the Turkish minority of Bulgaria, who today live in different countries, most of them in Turkey. The collection sheds light on the life of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria and their responses to the contradictory politics, in long periods - discriminatory and assimilatory, of the socialist state.

Location

Languages

  • Bulgarian

Name of collection

  • The Resistance of the National Turkish Minority against Exclusionary Politics in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.

Provenance and cultural activities

Description of content

  • The collection includes oral history interviews with around one hundred witnesses of the Bulgarian communist regime, who today live mostly in Turkey. It also contains photos and scanned documents, such as documents about detention in a forced labour camp, or "concentration camp" as Dinç, Vildane (Alieva, Vildane) has defined it, and government enforced exile.

Content

  • legal and/or financial documentation: 10-99
  • photos: 10-99
  • voice recordings (including oral history recordings): 100-499

Stakeholder(s) of the collection

Geographical scope of recent operation

  • international

Date of founding

  • 2010

Place of founding

Access type

  • visits by appointments

Publications

Author(s) of this page

  • Kasabova, Anelia Dr.

References

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Ялъмов, Ибрахим. История на турската общност в България. София: ИК „Илинда-Евтимов“, 2002 [Yalamov, Ibrahim. History of the Turkish Community in Bulgaria. Sofia: IK "Ilinda-Evtimov", 2002].

Konstantinov, Yulian. Strategies for Sustaining a Vulnerable Identity: the Case of the Bulgarian Pomaks. In: Muslim Identity and the Balkan State, edited by Hugh Poulton and Suha Taji Farouki. London: Hurst & Company, 1997, pp. 33-53.

Ангелов, Веселин (Съст.) Борба без оръжие. Турско националноосвободително движение в България 1985-1986. София, 2009 [Angelov, Veselin (Ed.) Fighting without weapons. Turkish National Liberation Movement in Bulgaria 1985-1986. Sofia, 2009].

Höpken, Wolfgang. From Religious Identity to Ethnic Mobilization: The Turks of Bulgaria before, under and since Communism. In: Muslim Identity and the Balkan State, edited by Hugh Poulton and Suha Taji Farouki. London: Hurst & Company, 1997, pp. 54-81.

Знеполски, Ивайло, Александър Везенков, Даниел Вачков, Даниела Колева, Иван Еленков, Мартин Иванов, & Чавдар Маринов. История на Народна република България: Режимът и обществото. София: Сиела, 2009 [Znepolski, Ivaylo, Aleksander Vezenkov, Daniel Vachkov, Daniela Koleva, Ivan Elenkov, Martin Ivanov and Chavdar Marinov. History of the People's Republic of Bulgaria: Regime and Society. Sofia: Siela, 2009]

Трифонов, Стайко. Мюсюлманите в политиката на българската държава (1944 – 1989). В: Страници от българската история. Събития, размисли, личности. Т. 2. Съст. Мария Босева, София: Просвета, 1993, 211-224 [Trifonov, Stayko. The Muslims in the Politics of the Bulgarian State (1944 – 1989). In: Pages from Bulgarian History. Events, Reflections, Personalities. T. 2. edited by Maria Boseva, Sofia: Prosveta, 1993, 211-224].

Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh. Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Стоянов, Валери. Турското население в България между полюсите на етническата политика. София: ЛИК, 1998 [Stoyanov, Valeri. The Turkish Population in Bulgaria between the Poles of Ethnic Politics. Sofia: LIK, 1998].

Леви, Самуел (Съст.) Истината за "Възродителния процес": документи от архива на Политбюро и ЦК на БКП. София: Институт за изследване на интеграцията, 2003 [Levi, Samuel (Ed.) The Truth about the "Revival Process": Documents from the Politburo Archives and the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Sofia: Institute for Integration Studies, 2003].

Груев, Михаил, Алексей Кальонски. Възродителният процес. Мюсюлманските общности и комунистическият режим. София: Сиела, 2008 [Gruev, Mihail and Aleksey Kalyonski. The Revival Process. Muslim Communities and the Communist Regime. Sofia: Siela, 2008].


Zhelyazkova, Antonina  (Ed.). Between Adaptation and Nostalgia. The Bulgarian Turks in Turkey. Sofia: International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, 1998.

Иванов, Михаил. За тези събития трябва да пише в учебниците. Интервю на Даниела Горчева с Михаил Иванов. 22 март 2009 [Ivanov, Mihail. These Events Need to be Discussed in the History Textbooks. Interview of Daniela Gorcheva with Mihail Ivanov] 22th March 2009. Retrieved from http://www.mediapool.bg/za-tezi-sabitiya-tryabva-da-pishe-v-uchebnitsite-news150414.html) 

Höpken, Wolfgang. Der Exodus: Muslimische Emigration aus Bulgarien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. In: Osmanen und Islam in Südosteuropa. Göttingen: De Gruyter, 2013, pp. 303-432.

Eminov, Ali. Turkish and Other Muslim Minorities of Bulgaria. New York: Routledge, 1997.

, interview by Kasabova, Anelia Dr., . COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

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