The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria
by
Tomasz Kamusella
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar...