RESISTANCE AGAINST NAMECIDE IN COMMUNIST BULGARIA
KOMÜNİST BULGARİSTAN'DA ADKIRIMINA KARŞI DİRENİŞ

Author : Vildane DİNÇ
Number of pages : 201-211

Abstract

The term of namecide defines the systematic forcible destruction of the native names of individuals belonging to different ethnic, cultural, religious or national minorities. In the dominant literature, the namecide is known as “forcible changing names” or “renaming”. During the period 1984-1989, the Bulgarian Socialist Government carried out a massive namecide on the national Turkish minority on the scale of ethnic genocide. To legitimize this process, it calls it a “revival process”. This is the most obvious rapid method of destroying the culture of a minority in Europe in the 1980s. The article presents various aspects of the reaction of victims of the “revival process” on the basis of empirical data and information.

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