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May 20, 1989: Ethnic Turks in Bulgaria Demand Their Muslim Names, Religious Freedom
May 20, 1989: Ethnic Turks in Bulgaria Demand Their Muslim Names, Religious Freedom
Ethnic Turks and other Muslims rallying in Sofia as Parliament is about to vote on returning their Muslim names after they were changed for Slavic ones in 1984 as part of a forcible assimilation campaign, Sofia, March 5, 1990 (BTA Photo)
At a peaceful demonstration in the northeastern village of Pristoe on May 20, 1989, Bulgarian ethnic Turks demanded back their Muslim names. They had been renamed several years earlier as part of the "Regeneration Process", an euphemism for an

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