Why do so many Bulgarian Turks claim to be descendants of the Ottoman Turks, while there are many sources that point to them to be of Cuman/Pecheneg/Tatar origin and came to the
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Ruslan Trad on Twitter: "Over 360,000 Bulgarian Turks left Communist Bulgaria to Turkey between 30 May 1989 and 22 August 1989 as part of the so-called Revival Process - a policy of
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