Forgotten Three Great Political Assassinations Towards Turkish Minority in Bulgaria

Abstract

After leaving the administration of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish population in Bulgaria had encountered a variety of oppression, intimidation and displacement methods during the separation process during the Ottoman Russian War of 1877- 1878 and later on. The situation of Turkey, which was relatively good in the early years of the Republic of Turkey after World War I, began to deteriorate from the late 1920s on account of the hostile aggressive attitudes of the ultra- nationalist Bulgarian organizations. In this period, especially the leaders of the Turkish minority were targeted and numerous assassinations took place. However, when we look at today, about most of these murders have not received enough information. It was possible to conduct research about three assassinations we investigated in our work, because of the presence of archival materials and, in part, their reflection on the press. In addition, these assassinations took place in the Rhodopes region in southern Bulgaria, where the mojority of the Turkish population is located. Hasan and Fevzi Beyler, who are in the position of the head of the township, and Hüseyin Galibov a deputy in the Bulgarian parliament of the time, were tried to be illuminated in the direction of the sources of return.