Minority policies in Bulgaria: countinuity and change

Download
index.pdf
2003
Tahir, Tahir
Show full item record
179
views
0
downloads
This thesis analyzes Bulgaria̕s minority policy followed by various governments during the Principality, the Kingdom, Peoples Republic and post-Communist Bulgaria. General discussion and assessment of minority rights standards within major international organizations is followed by analysis of minorities̕ status and treatment in Bulgaria since 1878. The thesis seeks answers to what have been the main features of minority policies in modern Bulgarian history, what has constituted its continuity and change.
Minority rights, Minority, Bulgaria, Turkish minority, Pomak minority, Roma minority, Macedonian minority
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/1217850/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13386
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

Muslim minorities of Bulgaria and Georgia: A comparative study of Pomaks and Ajarians
Kahraman, Alter; Aydıngün, Ayşegül; Applied Ethics (2020-10)
This thesis analyses the transformation of identities of two religious minorities, Pomaks and Ajarians, located on the opposite sides of the Black Sea region, in Bulgaria and Georgia respectively. Both minorities embraced Islam under the Ottoman rule and encountered difficulties with the growth of ethno-religious nationalism in their respective countries’ national ideologies in the post-Ottoman era. The thesis reviews the literature on ethnic and religious nationalism, for the relation between religion and ...
Minority rights in Ukraine before and after the illegal annexation of crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014: the case of crimean Tatars
Öz, Yeliz; Aydıngün, Ayşegül; Department of Eurasian Studies (2020)
This thesis analyzes the impact of the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation on the minority rights policies of Ukraine by examining the case of the Crimean Tatars, one of the indigenous peoples of the Crimean Peninsula. The Euromaidan in 2013, the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the ongoing conflict in Donbas have caused dramatic changes within Ukrainian politics including the country’s minority rights policies. Throughout this process, a security-based perspective has been domin...
Turkey and Turkish/Muslim minorities in Greece and Bulgaria (1923-1938)
Emen, Gözde; Boyar, Ebru; Department of International Relations (2011)
This thesis examined how Turkish perception of insecurity, which was based on its suspicions about Greek and Bulgarian intentions and politics towards its territorial integrity and stability of its regime, shaped its view of Turkish/Muslim minorities living in these two states in the early Republican period. Using a wealth of archival material and newspapers, it questioned to what extent these physical and ideological concerns of the Turkish Republic played a role in its approach to these minorities in the ...
Impacts of Transition from an Official Greek Viewpoint: The Case of the Turkish Muslim Minority in Western Thrace-Greece (1923-1933)
Hüseyinoğlu, Ali (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi (Ankara, Turkey), 2012-4-1)
In the beginning of the 20th century, the dissolution of great empires in Europe resulted in formation of new nation states. Millions of people were forced to move from one place to another while others remained on their own historic lands. As the Ottoman Millet system collapsed together with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, ethnic and religious differentiation among communities throughout the former Ottoman lands started to be promoted by new nation states of the post-World War. In this respect, thos...
Reconsidering the annexation of the Sanjak of Alexandretta through local narratives
Matkap, Sıtkıye; Şeker, Nesim; Department of Media and Cultural Studies (2009)
The main aim of this thesis is to examine the history of Sanjak of Alexandretta in the Turkish nationalist historiography. In this respect, it is important to comprehend how this region as a territory was tried to present as a homeland with ethnic-nationalist connotations and idioms through the discipline of history by Kemalist nationalists in the late of 1930s. Thus, in order to pay attention to the process of annexation of the region into Turkey requires focusing on how and by whom this nationalist histor...
Citation Formats
T. Tahir, “Minority policies in Bulgaria: countinuity and change,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.
METU IIS - Integrated Information Service open@metu.edu.tr