Republic of Turkey in EU ? The Bulgarians want s Referendum - Why?

The residents of Batak first fought the Turkish mercenaries on April 30, 1876. 5 000 people of the 6-7 000 population of Batak had been slaughtered in the massacre. The small church of Sveta Nedelya, built in the centre of the town has become a relic for every Bulgarian. What happened here 130 years ago has made the church into one of the symbols of April Uprising. Says Ekaterina Peychinova, Director of the Museum of History in Batak:

"The Sveta Nedelya church was built in 1813, many years before the Christian population was granted greater freedoms to erect new Christian temples. Legend has it that Batak residents had finally got permission to build a small church. The Ottoman administration placed the condition that they do it in 3 months, because he was certain they would fail. However, the residents of Batak put all their efforts to this task and managed to finish the church in 75 days. And yet, the historical importance of this monument stems from the events that unfolded here during the April Uprising of 1876."

The Church of Sveta Nedelya turned out to be the last stronghold of the rebels. Probably because it was built entirely of stone, and had strong oak gates, and a high stone fence, or because no one would have dreamt that the Turks would dare destroy the temple. Nearly 2 000 people, women, children and elderly people gathered inside the church. Says Ekaterina Peychinova:

"For three days and three nights the people inside the church held together, and the shooting outside did not stop for a minute. The attackers through beehives and set fire to straw, but the rebels would not give in. Then they began to suffocate and most of the people died of asphyxia. Thirst was the biggest problem for everyone, because there was no water near the church. The mothers used the oil from the icons to moisten the lips of their babies, and when there was no more oil, they used the blood of the dead. An elderly man said they should start digging the earth in search of underground water, but the spring of 1876 had turned a dry one and their attempts failed. At the end of the third day they caved in and opened the gates of the church. But then they had only two options: either become Muslims or die. Every single one of them chose death."

The Ottoman troops had made an attempt to burn the church down, but failed completely because the church had been built entirely out of stone. Only the wooden iconostasis perished in the fire. The Turkish authorities even tried to erase every trace of violence because of the news of the international inquiry committee that was due to carry out an investigation at the idea of the Russian government. They tried to bury the corpses in one mass grave, and even painted the church on the inside, but the blood came out, and the Turks started caving out the walls. These have remained as evidence of the events of the spring of 1876.
"Obviously MacGahan was an exceptionally brave man to oppose two big empires simultaneously, the Ottoman and the British. The first defended the murderers and the second did not want to have the status quo in the Balkans changed. This is how MacGahan happened to challenge directly Britain's Prime Minister at that time, Disraeli. Here is what he wrote about him: "In Mr. Disraeli's view, the big crime is not in the murdering of thousands and thousands of innocent people, but in the fact that the newspapers wrote that 30,000 were killed, when the real number was "only" 25,000. The insulting mistake consisted not in the fact that thousands of young children have been slaughtered, but in writing that their number was 1,000 when actually they were 999!" MacGahan indeed used devastating irony to defend justice and truth. In my opinion, he is one of the great spirits of the 19th century, Luko Zahariev contends. It is not incidentally then, that in 1976, when commemorating the 100th anniversary of the April Uprising, the citizens of Batak placed his statue in the centre of their town," Luko Zahariev said in conclusion.

During the Russo-Turkish war, MacGahan visited Bulgaria again and everywhere he was hailed as a liberator and deliverer; the grateful people ran after him as he rode through the streets of the towns and villages of this country, kissing his boots, saddle, bridle, and even the little pet horse that he rode. Archibald Forbes, MacGahan's companion in his travels says the grateful and affectionate demonstrations of the people of Bulgaria towards MacGahan, surpassed anything of the kind he ever saw or imagined.

Shortly after the Russo-Turkish war, MacGahan died of typhus in Istanbul. Later his body was taken to the cemetery of Maplewood in New Lexington, Ohio. The inscription on his tombstone reads: "MacGahan, Liberator of Bulgaria" REMEMBER 3 March Republic of Turkey in EU ? The Bulgarian want s Referendum - Why?

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[Sarajevo1389Srpsko]

СМЕРТЬ ТУРКАМ Поздрав от Серба

[SorrybutJebiga]

THERE IS NOT ONLY BULGARIA 90% EUROPEANS DONT WANT TURKEY ...EU NEED TURKEY FOR FREE OLi ,BASES :d

[teodor187]

how can you say Bulgaria originated from turkey when Bulgaria was formed in 632 AD and turkey in 900 AD. it doesn't make any sense. Bulgaria was 1st known in the 7th century ad but the byzantines saw them as a country in 632 ad ...sooo turkey wishes bulgaria was like them

[Nickname997]

@olbodala It doesnt matter that there is slavery in muslim countries, because the entire non western world is a slave of the West. The millions of poor people who work for the western multinationals they are the modern slaves. Muslims have to treat slaves very good and free them according to their religion. Europeans were trying to colonise North Africa they were also making piracy against muslims thats why there was piracy. both sides did it and later North Africa was colonised by the west.

[Nickname997]

@olbodala In muslim countries, Arabia there was slavery but it was much better than the one practised by Europeans. Slaves were mostly in households and used as soldiers or in harem as concubines but they didnt had to work in a cotton plantation under the hot sun, treated like animals till they died. In Islam slavery is allowed but they have to be treated like a human and freeing a slave is very good thing most muslim owners freed their slaves after some years.

[Nickname997]

@olbodala Lol man The West systematically plunders the rest of the world of its wealth, This started after the 15th century and it continues. The west is very hypocritical about human rights, they abolished slavery but only after it stopped being lucrative. The abolution of slavery was only in name, blacks in america continued to be badly treated and work for little,nothing changed in reality.

[olbodala]

@Nickname997 I'm agree about the involvement of some european countries in the slavery,but the european were the first to abolish slavery whereas muslim countries were the least to abolish this infamy(saudia arabia,1968,etc).Even today,in some place like mauritania and other muslim countries,slavery continue.Piracy was one of the main activities of turks and north african,and don't lie,european never take muslims slaves,and moreover,the main slaves sellers were muslims and jews,not european.

[Nickname997]

LOL man Joining something in which bulgaria is a part of?? no thank you please, Who would want that?

[Nickname997]

@olbodala The entire world practised slavery but West did it most and continues. The rest of the world never had massive slavery as practised by the west Even today Western countries use the poor people of Africa China India as cheap slaves to produce goods. When north Africans captured europeans, europeans were doing exactly the same, Malta was full with muslim slaves. European slavery and piracy was much more but the West allways lies and tells a fake history in which they are the victims.

[Ducky888888]

@LeicaSurveyor We should have nuked them all after WW2.

Anyways thats the muslims who say that its the law of the fittest, then let it be.

[Ducky888888]

@LeicaSurveyor

You are 100% right. We christians are fucking assholes for not defending ours.

We should have taken back Constantinople and revenge the armenian, greek genocide but we did nothing.

But in the same time I feel some jewish influence there. Of course its not in their interest that christians become too powerful. They are much better off if they can keep up an eternal war.