Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bulgarians ignored sub-zero temperatures to gather around it. They shook their fists and cheered rabble-rousing speeches protesting a decision by the country's new reformist government to restore to 1.2 million ethnic Turks the civil and religious rights they lost in 1984. "Turks to Turkey!" they roared. "Bulgaria for the Bulgarians...
...SOFIA, Bulgaria--An outbreak of Slavic nationalist protest against the Turkish minority appears to be an attempt by Communist hard-liners to preserve their power in Bulgaria, an opposition leader said yesterday...
Thousands of nationalists in the past week have staged strikes and demonstrations in at least eight cities across Bulgaria to protest a Dec. 29 decision by central authorities to restore cultural and religious rights to the country's estimated 1.5 million Moslems, mostly ethnic Turks...
When former leader Todor Zhivkov was ousted Nov. 10, he was succeeded by Petar Mladenov who promised to steer Bulgaria out of its Stalinist past and into a democratic future...
...protests "could push the country in a neo-Fascist and nationalist direction," said Simeonov. "This problem could deform the democratic processes in Bulgaria and postpone the talks...