NOVA MAHALA, Bulgaria — Sabrie Balaktcha, 80, is poor, angry and almost out of hope. Her two sons living here are unemployed. A third fled to Turkey more than a decade ago to escape a Communist ...

Bulgaria, North Macedonia condemn ethnic-related violence. Jan 21, 2023, 3:07 PM | Updated: Jan 22, 2023, 5:13 am. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of North Macedonia, ...

SOFIA, BULGARIA —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 ...

About a million ethnic Turks in Bulgaria were required to accept a Slavic name -- many at gun point. Some who continued to refuse were beaten and had their identification papers confiscated.

Five years of archival research by an RFE/RL correspondent in Bulgaria has resulted in a documentary film that sheds light on the forced assimilation of ethnic Turks in the 1980s. Reporter Tatiana ...

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 ...

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 ...