Bulgarian Turks in Turkey

Bulgarian Turks in Turkey
български турци в Турция
Türkiye'deki Bulgaristan Türkleri
Regions with significant populations
Holding Bulgarian citizenship 326,000[1]
Born in Bulgaria 480,817[2]
the total of emigration wave from 1879 to 1992 1,160,614[3]
Languages
Turkish  · Bulgarian
Religion
Islam

The Bulgarian Turks in Turkey represent a community of Bulgarian Turks, who immigrated over the years from Bulgaria to Turkey. They are notable in Turkey that they managed over the years to continue to keep their linguistic and cultural connections with Bulgaria and [4][5][6] moreover, part of them continue to be dual citizens of Bulgaria and Turkey, which makes them a natural bridge between both countries.

Origins

Bulgarian Turks are descendants of Turkic settlers who came from Anatolia across the narrows of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus following the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the late 14th and early 15th centuries, as well as Bulgarian converts to Islam who became Turkified during the centuries of Ottoman rule in Bulgaria.[7][8] It has also been suggested that some Turks living today in Bulgaria may be direct ethnic descendants of earlier medieval Pecheneg, Oğuz, and Cuman Turkic tribes.[9][10][11] The Turkish community became an ethnic minority when the Principality of Bulgaria was established after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.

Famous Bulgarian Turks in Turkey

See also

References

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  3. ↑ Eminov, Ali (1997), Turkish and other Muslim minorities in Bulgaria, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, p. 79, ISBN 1-85065-319-4
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  7. ↑ Stein, Jonathan. The Politics of National Minority Participation in Post-communist Europe, p. 238. M.E. Sharpe, 2000. ISBN 0-7656-0528-7
  8. ↑ R.J.Crampton. "A concise history of Bulgaria", p. 36. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  9. ↑ Hupchick 2002, pp.11
  10. ↑ Nicole 1990, pp.45
  11. ↑ Norris, Islam in the Balkans, pp. 146-47.