It severely curtailed the right of its own Turkish citizens to practice their religion and closed mosques and barred the importation of copies of the Koran. None of these acts was enough. Last year. the Bulgarian Government. which previously had prevented its Turkish citizens from emigrating. reversed course. and expelled them across the border into Turkey. Not Just a fewhundreds of thousands of them. My point here is not to relate the sad tale of what the ethnic Turkish Bulgarians have suffered. but to demonstrate that when the Bulgarian Communists were overthrown and the new Government repudiated all the abhorrent policies against the ethnic Turks. the Bulgarian people turned out in massive demonstrations against the new Government.
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