The 1989 Forced Migration (Turkish: 1989 Zorunlu Göç) also euphemistically known as the "Big Excursion" (Bulgarian: Голямата екскурзия, romanized: Goliamata Ekskurziya) was the ethnic cleansing of Bulgarian Muslims by the Communist government of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Between May and August 1989, 360,000 Bulgarian Muslims crossed the border into Turkey.[2] In late December 1989, a month after the resignation of General Secretary Todor Zhivkov, the "Big Excursion" came to a genuine end, with the new government promising to restore the rights of Bulgarian Muslims.[3] By the end of 1990, around 150,000 Bulgarian Muslims had returned from abroad.[4]
While the "Big Excursion" is sometimes alleged to have been a case of voluntary mass migration,[citation needed] it has been widely recognized as ethnic cleansing, including by the democratic government of now-EU-member Bulgaria in 2012.[5] Though the Excursion is not as widely remembered in the West as the subsequent Bosnian genocide and expulsion (and subsequent return) of Kosovar Albanians in neighboring Yugoslavia,[citation needed] as of 1989 it was the largest case of ethnic cleansing[6] in Europe since the expulsion of Germans living east of the Oder–Neisse line between 1944 and 1950.
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^ abcKamusella 2019a, pp. 1.
^Martino.
^Kamusella 2019b.
^"Защо българските турци се завръщат в началото на 90-те години на ХХ в."
^ДЕКЛАРАЦИЯ осъждаща опита за насилствена асимилация на българските мюсюлмани. 2012. Bulgarian MPs Enforce 'Revival Process' Official Condemnation. 2012. http://www.novinite.com/articles/140018/Bulgarian+MPs+Enforce+%27Revival+Process%27+Official+Condemnation
^27 години от „Голямата екскурзия" – комунистическият план за етническо прочистване. 2016. http://www.faktor.bg/bg/articles/politika/na-vseki-kilometar/-27-godini-ot-golyamata-ekskurziya-komunisticheskiyat-plan-za-etnichesko-prochistvane-74482
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