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Post by depletedreasons on Apr 15, 2008 7:04:20 GMT -5
Bulgaria PM Binds Turkey's Joining EU to Thracian Bulgarians Compensations11 April 2008, Friday Bulgaria's PM Sergey Stanishev announced Thursday that the question about the compensations that Turkey owes to the descendants of the Bulgarian refugees from Eastern Thrace would be posed in the context of Ankara's EU negotiations. Stanishev answered in Parliament to a question by the group of the extreme right and nationalist Ataka party regarding the compensations about the property of the Bulgarian refugees, who fled Eastern Thrace (Turkey's European part) in 1913-1920, the Bulgarian private Darik Radio reported. He stressed that the bilateral negotiations on the issue that had been frozen for over ten years, had finally been reopened during the recent visit of the Turkish PM Erdogan to Bulgaria. Bulgaria and Turkey have not agreed on specific deadlines for the settlement of the compensations dispute; they will be agreed upon when the expert groups are ready with their positions. Stanishev pointed out that the issue was very old - it dated back to the 1925 Angora Agreement between Bulgaria and Turkey. According to some estimates, Turkey owes a compensation of some USD 10 B to the descendants of the Bulgarians, who left their estates in Eastern Thrace as well as in Asia Minor. These include over two million decares of agricultural land, homes, and other property. The Turkish side also has claims towards Bulgaria as the 1925 provided for populations exchanges between the two states. 212.91.166.50/view_news.php?id=92134
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Post by stambolov2025 on Apr 15, 2008 14:45:20 GMT -5
If you want the Turks in Bulgaria, we should be more than glad to give them to you.
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Post by bb681 on Apr 15, 2008 17:59:58 GMT -5
lol I think he just likes to post random bs from the news once in a while
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Post by pagane on Apr 16, 2008 2:07:08 GMT -5
I wouldn't call it 'once in a while' ;D He is brilliant in searching whatever he can find every day.
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Post by depletedreasons on Apr 16, 2008 2:18:18 GMT -5
I have many friends whose parents or grandparents were forced to emigrate from Bulgaria back in the 20th Century. Bulk of them is ready to claim their land or citizenship rights back if a settlement would arise.
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Post by depletedreasons on Apr 16, 2008 2:19:04 GMT -5
I wouldn't call it 'once in a while' ;D He is brilliant in searching whatever he can find every day. You are right.
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Post by pagane on Apr 16, 2008 2:27:58 GMT -5
Really? I didn't know that once your house is legally sold to someone as in the case with Turks who emigrated, you can claim it back later. Is this how real estate market in Turkey works?
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Post by depletedreasons on Apr 16, 2008 3:07:55 GMT -5
Really? I didn't know that once your house is legally sold to someone as in the case with Turks who emigrated, you can claim it back later. Is this how real estate market in Turkey works? Some sold, but some did not. The ones who did not sell their property, could raise claim against Bulgaria, I reckon. That is what I tell.
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Post by bb681 on Apr 16, 2008 11:22:34 GMT -5
I have many friends whose parents or grandparents were forced to emigrate from Bulgaria back in the 20th Century. Bulk of them is ready to claim their land or citizenship rights back if a settlement would arise. If Bulgaria really was trying to get rid of the Turkish after the liberation, you would have had even more friends than that. Surely the social climate in Bulgaria, after 1878, became much less Ottoman-friendly for these people which convinced many that lived in western and north-western Bulgaria to leave but thats not exactly the same as forced expulsion. The communities in the eastern parts of the country had bigger % of people with Turkish origin and this kind of "grouping" made it socially easier to stay(i.e. by being among more people of your kind) so less of them left for Turkey but if the Bulgarian government really wanted the Turkish out,these would not have made it either.
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Post by stambolov2025 on Apr 16, 2008 14:23:53 GMT -5
Really? I didn't know that once your house is legally sold to someone as in the case with Turks who emigrated, you can claim it back later. Is this how real estate market in Turkey works? Some sold, but some did not. The ones who did not sell their property, could raise claim against Bulgaria, I reckon. That is what I tell. Turks want to claim the land for the sake of getting the land and not because they actually feel that Bulgaria is their homeland.
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