That winter many ethnic Turks came back, which provoked a nationalist backlash that was manipulated by die-hard supporters of Zhivkov, still in power at the local level. “Bulgaria was on the ...

The visit of Bulgaria's ruling party presidential candidate to Brussels yesterday (26 September), seeking support from his European political family the EPP, was overshadowed by ethnic violence in ...

The incident comes just weeks after Bulgaria requested that the prosecution of hate crimes against ethnic Bulgarians in North Macedonia become part of its accession negotiations with the EU.

In the 1980s, Bulgaria's communist rulers drove hundreds of thousands of ethnic Turks out of the country after failing to forcefully assimilate them. Thirteen years after the fall of one-party ...

Bulgaria-born migrants to Turkey have traditionally shown keen interest in the general elections in the country, either voting in Turkey or traveling to Bulgaria to do so. Photo by BGNES ...