Turkish culture geography has two important festivals based on cyclical time: Nevruz and Hidirellez Festivals. While Nevruz is the beginning of the “new year” across the Turkish world, Hidirellez is accepted as the beginning of the summer. As changes in nature have been always important for nomads, ranchers, and cultivators, both nomads and cultivators celebrate these important days with festivals, and they reflect their expectations from the new year via rituals. Bulgarian Turks, which is a part of the Turkish world in the Balkans, also celebrate these days with various festivals. In these festivals, traditions and rituals related to the Nevruz and Hidirellez are created each year, which also helps consolidate the societal solidarity. In this context, this article aims to depict the original celebrations of Bulgarian Turks for Nevruz and Hidirellez and provides examples related to traditions and rituals

The studies of the Turkish-Islamic literature constitute an important part of our cultural and literary heritage. In this article will be evaluated the 18th century poet Antakyali Münif’s life, works, literary personality and especially his work Zafername-i Belgrade. The Belgrade Zafername of Munif is in the Suleymaniyah manuscript library Assad Efendi collection registered with the Zafername-i Belgrad name. This book was written as verse-prose. The parts of the measure of prosody was written such as “me fâ î lün / me fâ î lün / me fâ î lün / me fâ” and Sebk-i Hindî’n was seen in Arabic and Persian writtings compositions of the important movements of the 17th century. The poet describes the conquest of Belgrade. We see that the poet was born in Antioch in the 18th century and then moved to Istanbul. The poet passed away in 1743-1744 and was buried in Uskudar cemetery.

The arrival of spring has been seen as important and celebrated in hunting, gathering and agricultural societies. The arrival of spring is celebrated throughout the Turkish World and continues to exist in cultural memory. Hidirellez holiday, which is the celebration of the arrival of spring among the Turks, is a celebration where many beliefs, rituals and traditions are kept alive. For example, prayers are made for many wishes to come true such as increasing the fertility of the house, receiving a marriage proposal, owning a house, finding a job, being healthy, being rich, being successful, having plenty of crops, and prayers are expected to come true for a year. Many applications that are thought to bring jinx are also avoided. These beliefs about Hidirellez are kept alive by rituals and narratives. The Balkans is a region where the Hidirellez tradition is kept alive. It is seen that there are many practices to increase the fertility and for wishes to come true, as well as some beliefs and practices to be protected from the witches and legends and memorates are told to make sense of these practices. In our study, examples of the beliefs of the Turks living in Bulgaria, Moldava and Macedonia in the Balkans about the witches in the Hidirellez festival and examples of the beliefs of the Turks living in Anatolia about the witches in the Hidirellez festival will be given. The fact that the Turkish Hidirellez tradition is fed from many sources and the importance of legends, memorates and practices in the continuation of the tradition will be evaluated.

Inscriptions and gravestones, as distinguished samples of Turkish art, were among the works of art captured as spoils of war plundered by the Westerners. Gravestone of the Grand Vizier Izzet Mehmed Pasha dated 1198/1784 in Beograd, inscription of Suleyman Agha dated 1157/1744-45, a fountain inscription of Mustafa Pasha dated 1106/1694-95, and basin of a bath were removed from their original places and brought to Gasztony Village located along Austria border of Hungary, in 1789, in memory of capturing of Zemun across the city of Beograd, by General Boros József Rákosi, a commander in Austrian South Army. Boros József Rákosi placed the gravestone of Izzet Mehmed Pasha and inscription of Suleyman Agha in Gasztony Church, and placed inscription of Mustafa Pasha on the wall of his own house. The gravestone in Gasztony Church, the inscription and basin of the bath were examined during the field trip in August 3, 2018. It has been determined that the inscription belonging to Mustafa Pasha, later placed on the wall of the House of Boros József Rákosi located across the church and still being used as the town house, has not reached today.

The main objective of this study is to analyze the works written in the memoir genre by the Bulgarian Turks from 1970 to present day, along with their respective contents and to examine these Works under section headings. In this respect, the historical journey of the ethnic and religious prohibitions that were imposed upon Bulgarian Turks along with the oppression, cruelty and violent incidents and the relationships between various ethnic groups in Bulgaria –especially that of Bulgarians and Turks- have been set forth by studying them under the given themes. Thus, the social struggle fort he rights and freedoms of various Turkish minorities –especially that of Bulgarian Turks- to protect their religious and national identities and to keep their cultural assets alive under a dissimiliar governing entity has been studied and set forth.

1989 Forced Migration is the last tragedy of 20th century that were seen and experienced by Turks who live in Bulgaria who were subjected to various oppression, violence and atrocities since the historical process of 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War. Turks in Bulgaria and in Turkey have penned many articles, novels, poetry, short stories and memories on this subject. In this study, was discussed the novels of Emine Isinsu, Ömer Osman Erendoruk, Sabri Tata, Mürvet Altinel and Mehmet Türker. It has been shown how the authors dealt with various examples of atrocities, especially the moral pressure, name change, physical violence and many assimilation methods that the Turks who live in Bulgaria were subjected to during the communist period. It has been mentioned Turks in Bulgaria who were patriotic, courageous and claim their identity, Turks who live in Bulgaria who were betrayed their own nation and Communist Bulgarians cited as the perpetrators of the problems. In this study, it is examined how the authors define the 1989 Forced Migration as a result of the problems realized through their Turkish and Bulgarian identities by including their sociological determinations.

The precious work Historija Bošnjaka, written by Prof. Dr. Mustafa Imamovic in 1997, was translated into Turkish by Hüseyin Gül and Cenita Özgüner in 2018 under the name History of Bosniaks. Published by History Foundation. Mehmet Alkan, the Director of the History Foundation, wrote the introduction. Bosniaks and with Bosnia and Herzegovina until today as relevant enough to be used in studies of local resources is a serious deficiency in Turkey. Bosnians date of this deficiency and South Slavs with the relevant point contribution to academic literature in Turkey is a very important work. The introduction of such a basic work into Turkish will close a huge gap in this field. However, both the work, its translation and some expressions we encountered in the foreword, some concepts used in the translation and some information given by the author themselves attracted our attention and we wrote this work in order to prevent misunderstandings. In this context, we will make our determinations and evaluations in three items: introduction, translation of the work and about the work.