Page "Persecution of Muslims" Paragraph 26

" I can come to no other conclusion but that the Russians are carrying out a fixed policy exterminating the Moslem race ".

According to Aubaret, the French Consul in Ruse in 1876 in the Danube Vilayet alone there were 1, 120, 000 Muslims and 1, 233, 500 non-Muslims of whom 1, 150, 000 were Bulgarian.

Between 1876 and 1878, through massacres, epidemics, hunger and war a large portion of the Turkish population vanished.

Turkish flow to Anatolia continued in a steady pattern depending on the policies of the ruling regimes until 1925 after which immigration was regulated.

During the 20th century Bulgaria also practiced forced deportations and expulsions, which also targeted the Muslim Pomak population.