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 Егейски българин за Ататюрк |
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бaш бyrapaш (мин. на проп.) |
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| Публикувано | 21.05.06 18:10 |
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Отново от турския блог
April 20, 2006
Ataturk left his heart in Bulgaria | 3
Mavi Boncuk |
Regarding Kemal Ataturk (1881 -- 1938), Bulgarian diplomats (among them an uncle of mine), who have met him on many occasions in Turkey during the 1920's and 1930's, were able to chat with him sporadically in Bulgarian. Ataturk was known to favor excellent relations with Bulgaria. My uncle (an ethnic Bulgarian from Aegean Macedonia) claimed that he and his colleagues attributed that fact to - among other things - Ataturk's ethnic Bulgarian roots. Ataturk was born in Thessaloniki, Aegean Macedonia, which is today in Greece. His father's mixed ancestry (Albanian, Donme=Dyonme Jewish, Pomak=Muslim Bulgar) could be traced to Edhessa (Voden, Vodina) in SW Macedonia, while the mother's Pomak (Muslim Bulgar) forebears have lived in the region of Langadha (Lagadina, Langaza) near Theassaloniki. /The so called "Dyonme (Jews)" were descendants of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire who had converted to Islam in the late 17th century.
See, "Moustafa Kemal Atatyurk" ("Mustafa Kemal Ataturk") by Ivan Vlaykov, Vuzrozhdentsite, Sofia, 2000.
"Atatyurk - diktatorut demokrat" ("Ataturk - The Dictator (Who Was A) Democrat") by Parashkev Paroushev, Akademichno izdatelstvo "Profesor Marin Drinov", Sofia, 2000.
"Ataturk Hayati ve Eseri" ("Ataturk's Life and Work") by Hikmet Bayur, AKDTYK, Ankara, 1990.
"Ataturk" by Andrew Mango, The Overlook Press, New York, 2000.
These are a few of the materials I came upon when doing a fast search in my personal library which contains - among others - about 7000 books in Bulgarian and about 230 in Turkish.
Christopher Lerinski - an American descendant of Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia
posted by M.A.M at 1:14 AM
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