The Roma ethnic group marked the most significant growth in the past century, by 281,359 people, data from the 2001 census conducted by the National Statistical Institute, shows. As of March 2001 ...

Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party, whose leader escaped unhurt when a man pointed a gun to his head on stage at a party congress, said on Sunday it wanted police to investigate who was the ...

An exhibition of the work of two Turkish photographers documents a dark chapter of Bulgaria’s history – the forced assimilation and deportation of its ethnic Turkish minority.

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 ...

A documentary film depicting the forced assimilation campaign of ethnic Turks in Bulgaria in the 1980s has prompted strong reaction from political and judicial authorities. Prosecutors say they ...

Bulgaria lifted its veto last July, allowing North Macedonia to start EU accession negotiations, under EU-negotiated conditions that include adding the Bulgarians as a national ethnicity, along ...

Left-wing supporters and nationalists in North Macedonia both voiced anger Friday at an ethnic Bulgarian association's move to name itself after a Bulgarian monarch who is deeply resented for his ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — The foreign ministers of Bulgaria and North Macedonia paid a joint visit to a hospital Sunday where a North Macedonian citizen who identifies as Bulgarian is being treated ...

Left-wing supporters and nationalists in North Macedonia both have voiced anger at an ethnic Bulgarian association's move to name itself after a Bulgarian monarch who is deeply resented for his c ...

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.