I wish I could wait for the land of my ancestors.
But the Bulgarian governments did not grant my people their human rights, they did not respect their human rights. Deaths followed deaths, and exiles followed exiles. Our cultural heritage was destroyed, our foundations were usurped.
Rapes and deaths were never absent from our lives.
The Bulgarian authorities never cared that we had the right to live.
I experienced hostility and discrimination.
The Bulgarian authorities did not care whether there would be a response or what kind of reaction the oppression they inflicted on the Turkish people would provoke.
Those who thought this way always had reasons they could easily find in the people whose laws were filled with hostility towards the Turks.
Because we were Turks, they were our enemies.
Our lives were in their hands.
We had nothing to lose but our chains. We resisted, we did not bow. They considered us as nothing. In such a situ Show More