Political Behaviour of the Bulgarian Muslim Community

Abstract

Since the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria in 1989, all Muslims in the country have come to experience a changed situation in which democratic consequences are evident: possession of individual rights and freedoms, intensification of contacts with the Muslim world, and free political expression. Because the political heritage of the dismantled communist system is quite original in Bulgaria, in comparison with a number of other Balkan countries, a specific confessional model can be witnessed.