ANTI-TURKISH PROPAGANDA IN BULGARIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005600410010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 7, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Anti-Turkish Propaganda in
Bulgaria
DATE DISTR. 7 SEP 50
NO. OF PAGES 1
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
In Bulgaria, especially in the districts where the Turks are numerous,
a systematic propaganda campaign against Turkey is being waged. The
theme of the propaganda is that there are no homes or food in Turkey.
The Turks are said to be dying of hunger and to be eating grass and straw.
Those people who want to leave Bulgaria for Turkey are told that they will
not be accepted unless their relatives in Turkey will guarantee to support
them for three years. Therefore, according to the Bulgarian propaganda, the
best place to live is Bulgaria.
2. A few Turks who were selected by the Communist Party are travelling from
village to village and are repeating the stories about Turkey. In the
district of Momchilgrad, Nuri Turgut, Hasan Nalbant, Ahmet Karakedi
(aka Ahmet Onder), Kalil Ahmet, a cook named Mehmet Huseyin, a barber
Ahmet Kalil and the chief assistant of the municipality Zeki Kamil
are being used by the Bulgarian Communists in this way.
The Bulgarian Government encourages wealthy Turks who are in commerce to
emigrate to Turkey, but it prevents groups from leaving. Prior to the time
that three Communist Turkish newspapermen arrived in Bulgaria from Turkey,
people of the districts of Momchilgrad and Cumayibala.(sic) decided to
emigrate to Turkey in a group. They applied to the Turkish Consulate in
Plovdiv for visas. After returning to their villages, those who had applied
were exiled. After this incident, the Bulgarian propaganda campaign against
Turkey began.
4. Communism has not been accented by the Turks of Bulgaria. Among the
Bulgarians also, the real Communists are very few in number. The people
Are r#$ > i by the power of the Militia and the members of the Communist
Party. The Government wishes to establish Kolkhozes but there is little
sympathy for this project, The Communist Party-'distrusts the peasants and
at harvest time members of the Militia are present to prevent sabotage to the
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