European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Pingd Lei the stars and St rips Sundsby May 4, 198g. Campaign. Against ethnic turks by Patricia Koza end Thomas Goltz United press International in the closed bulgarian City of Kar Dzhali whore streets Are thick with Security police and Rerick my Feiyu n1ly Golf race Over Thor Shiqi Eldors. Tii is often in whimpers th1 -.? is Liftig r c1 a Crey be reiridonl3 soy Gnu Hali. City it .10.000, ha1 .1 Large number Otel line turks. It is Ifelo where a bulgarian Campaign to i Ope Oul he moslem culture Irig Yerid variant clashes in i98 1 find 1935. According loan amnesty International report ill teas to tiled in Hose confrontations in the Rhodora mount Nitis and the Northeast. Those Are the two Arens the nation s Esli maled 900.odd ethnic turks 10 percent of the population 9 e concentrated. Now. 17 months Alier the first violence dozens of pain clothes Oil icons walk the. Narrow Brick sheets of Kidir Titi. Residents said they Are forbidden 10 speak turkish in school at work or in Public and have Boon forced to Nice i new internal passports with bulgarian a wrings Rojo Saisho refused new passports were Jav Tupy shot one Middle need Man whispered to reporters allowed to visit the City. I ton t know e to icily How Man but it was Many " constantly Over his shoulder a several Iii i i. You Are followed pm Lollo Wrd " a in in in his Lalo 30s, who said his a emf was forcibly c Wiik Jet Arnm b i Riyal to Sarget. Said Puoplo face up to to in prison for jus iming Nanut hid problem. Bulgaria s assimilation Campaign re us ii wins in ii Jurt Bulent history. Ii was overrun by Tho turks in 1h Idle ugh Century and in id next 500 years of ottoman ruins. Inny adopted islam and thousands a turks moved into the country. founded during the turkish domination w.-j5 Redwood to Bulgaria Aflex the Balkan Wais of 1912 13 alter world War ii. Bulgaria like its Balkan neighbors Greece and yugoslavs had to Deal Vith Large torn Pac i enclaves of moslem pious Ems Les a l by Lwi a 6." Iii ins of Droit age a concern to a Security c Irr Cious nation is the highest ral o of military of pop dilation i the Warsaw pact diplomats see the , Campaign As a Way 1o ready ethnic turks or in he bulgarian Zsitny in the d30s, census figures from 1965 indic sled Rhino ratios accounted Tor 12.1 percent of Bulgaria s population. Tho 197i census asked que Shons Boul but a fret the o5iiis secret. In the 19b5 census Titre were Rio questions about Nati Annety at All. In the government s View the ethnic turkish migrant immunity in Buna Turkey tier a the famed Green mosque Speaks of i feelings to Vatt Bulgaria Popup nation 7&o.ooq in 19g5 had cd ipod 10 c is. That viev is Lello cled by government took Ownen simply Tell Isle there turkish areas in Bulgaria ". Nol tar across Tho Border in Buria. Turkey such Cavalier Salerno oils do not go Wos. Dutsa s rnrgra1, Community harbours bad feelings against Bui Irla to it j to oblige Date its turkish minority a vent happening in suf Gatia is , ii Iurii Saint Ratet adult vice Chai Nuri of Ihu Lutui Mir minis association called bal Cioc. Turki y hat repeatedly sent proles is to Tho Only id have them Igno Iod and clones Porsi a Tami in the recent past thu Hui Grinn army has surround of turkish villages gon door to door into Lorod residents to sign documents changing their moslem turkish names to slavic ones turks Charry that Birli record s going Back go Nef hons and tombstones with islamic , been erased to prove ital no Turki Over Eiste i in Bui Uana first they Odi iterated the macedonians then the Pomn i and then Hie said Yusuf Biln Logli Luv a of a group of families that Lun Nolod into Greece was eventually allowed to Settle in Tirsa hone of us believed the Oulu asians would it mid obliterate us. To on from Valla to she Helsinki a corf and then on sri rec Public opinion to Stop Ihram. All in vein " privately bulgarian officials concede the turkish b their by Jajjo. Hoat Tho cd consider a .1 Ivest to to purity. A Imil Jitian was the Only i Ilion " to a t Arn top a we a society to of unt Western Ria i of consider the Carnap Wijn in Obs Clr. � Ipri no relations my Bulgaria even the Sov Cut on of Nof Ahr. App,5nrg by the 1 , and hns not mentioned in publicly publicly Sard one a Diplomat Usa rather massive Vinla Nett of s t7 c0n � hip a on a. Tier i s be. Loosh very s
