Turkish National Liberation Movement in Bulgaria

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The Turkish National Liberation Movement in Bulgaria ( Bulgarian Турско национално-освободително движение в България , TNODB / ТНОДБ for short) was an illegal Turkish organization in the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1985/86. It was founded in Dobrich in July 1985 and broken up by the Bulgarian State Security in June 1986 . Among other things, she is held responsible for the attack on the Burgas-Sofia express train in Bunowo station on March 9, 1985, which killed seven people, including three children. The movement was the predecessor organization of today's Bulgarian party Dwischenie sa Prawa i Swobodi (Bulgarian Движение за права и свободи, DPS for short).

history

The organization was founded in the summer of 1985 by Salih Ahmed , Necmettin Hak and Ibrahim Arif . Contrary to popular belief, the current chairman of the DPS Ahmed Dogan was not one of the founding members. Necmettin Hak was elected first chairman.

The aim of the TNODB was to resist the policy of Bulgarization of the Turkish and Pomak minorities and to promote this policy internationally in order to create foreign policy pressure on Bulgaria. Above all, Radio Free Europe was used , in which journalist Rumiana Usunova reported daily on the actions of the State Security and the TNODB. The TNODB also advocated the right to bear Muslim names and the right to use the Turkish language , the right to practice Islamic customs and culture and the recognition of the Turks and Pomaks living in Bulgaria as an official minority .

Necmettin Hak met Ahmed Dogan in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in September 1985 to win him over as activist and future chairman. The organization intended to win a well-known personality for its goals abroad. Ahmed Dogan was working at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences at the time and had recently given an interview for a French journal. At the same time, Dogan was an active member of the Bulgarian State Security. His role in the founding and dismantling of the organization, as well as the further prosecution of its members, is still not fully understood. In the further course of 1985 Ahmed Dogan became part of the organization and, according to the official history of the DPS, of which Dogan has been chairman since it was founded, he was the ideologue and since the beginning of 1986 chairman of the TNODB. However, this is denied by the founding members of the TNODB. What is certain is that thanks to Dogan's information, after his arrest in 1986, the Bulgarian State Security was able to break up the organization. To what extent Bulgarian and Turkish secret services exerted influence on the Turkish National Liberation Movement in Bulgaria is not known.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Interview with Necmettin Hak (Bulgarian) on Nova TV, accessed June 11, 2011
  2. ^ Bulgarian Helsinki Committee