Reference Type:  Journal Article
Author: Mancsev, Krasztjo
Year: 1992
Title: A muzulmán kisebbségek a Balkán-államok politikájában
Translated Title: [MUSLIM MINORTITES AND GROUPS IN THE POLITICS OF BALKAN COUNTRIES / Minoritățile musulmane în politica țărilor balcanice]
Journal: Regio - Kisebbségtudományi Szemle
Volume: 1992/3/4
Pages: 8
Language: Hungarian
Keywords: Turkish, history, politics, religion
Abstract: (ENG) The study reviews some historical problems of the Muslim minorities and groups on the Balkan. The author's main intention is to learn how Muslim minorities became targets of different countries' national politics. The study lists the number of Muslim inhabitants in the Ottoman (and Habsburg) Empire and the succeeding states on the basis of demographic and historical data. It analyses the elaborate minority problems in each of the countries. A general feature was that minority politics in the Balkan states had two aspects. On the one hand the politics of the home country concerning the minorities of their own people in other countries,on the other their politics concerning the population of other religion or origin in their own territories. The author points at the fact that only Bulgaria did not accept the modified boundaries after World War I because masses of Bulgarian people were left outside of the country. Bulgaria could never have the rights of Bulgarian outside the country accepted by its neighbors. At the same time Bulgaria could not get rid of the Moslems within the country through oppression, deportation and other violent actions-like the neighboring countries did. The author stresses that in spite of historical griefs there is no other way for Bulgarians,Turks, Christians and Moslems than to live together in piece.
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