OSMANLI ARŞİV BELGELERİNE GÖRE BULGARİSTAN’DA 1910 YILINDA MEYDANA GELEN SOSYOLOJİK VE POLİTİK BİR OLAY: RUSÇUK VAKASI
A SOCIOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL EVENT THAT OCCURRED IN BULGARIA IN 1910 ACCORDING TO THE OTTOMAN ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS: THE RUSE INCIDENT

Summary/Abstract: In 1910, in the city of Ruse, Hafız Mehmed Efendi’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Emine Safvetî, was kidnapped by Yordan Stefanov (Jordan Stefanov), a 45-year-old Christian, and the girl was forced to convert to Christianity. The little girl later married the said person. This incident attracted the reaction of Muslims living in Ruse. The court handed Emine over to her family because she was a child. However, as a result of the provocations of the Macedonian Bulgarian committee members, the little girl was kidnapped from the police station. As a result of the events that followed, bloody clashes took place between security forces and Bulgarian demonstrators. Meanwhile, the incident was politicized and turned into a political struggle between opposition parties and the ruling Democrats. During these events, the Turks in Ruse had a hard time. In this article, the causes and consequences of the event called the Rusçuk Vakası (Incident) in the Ottoman literature will be discussed in the context of the Turks in Bulgaria and the government-opposition conflict. Our main sources are Ottoman Archive documents and Ottoman newspapers. In addition, other types of research were also used.

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