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My ancestors fled Bulgarian persecution during the Balkan wars that the article talks about. I've always wanted to visit Haskova (Hasköy at the time) where they

• malkia 9y ago
  With my ancestors it was the opposite. The story, or legend goes, that my family on my grandmother's side were bulgarians (okay not sure, but that's what they claimed) living in Turkey, and they moved to Bulgaria (in the "Strandzha" area) - because one of my grand-grand uncles killed a turkmen who was extorting him every year to give his "yamurluk" (you might know what it is). So he killed him, and they had to escape... Here is another article which I'm not proud about which Bulgaria did in the last year of the communist regime against the turkish minorities - http://www.dw.com/en/recalling-the-fate-of-bulgarias-turkish-minority/a-18149416 http://www.dw.com/en/recalling-the-fate-of-bulgarias-turkish... and then you have this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batak_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batak_massacre It's important to remember these, but not get too politicizied, in a "propaganda" style (as we used to learn it this way in school). I would like more open, here is what we did, here is what was done to us - here is what we should not do, avoid, etc. My mom & father are claiming Turkey is one of the most friendly countries (they are living in Burgas, Bulgaria), and my mom specifically loves Kapalu Charshi (I'm not prononuncing this correctly - but The Grand Bazar). Cheers!