The World - News from Aug. 18, 1989
Turkey said it is barring indefinitely the entry of a Bulgarian train that for three months has carried an average of 600 ethnic Turks into the country daily. Foreign Ministry spokesman Murat Sungar said the decision was made to protest the “disorderly and inhuman” transfer of ethnic Turks by the Bulgarian government. In May, Bulgaria began deporting ethnic Turks after subjecting them to a forced assimilation campaign that included changing their Turkish names to Slavic ones and banning Islamic rites and speaking of Turkish.
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