1 Far-rights supporter (Denitsa Gadzheva) Banya Bashi mosque clashes (Bulgarian: Сблъсъците при Баня баши джамия; Turkish: Banyabaşı cami saldırısı or sometimes 20 Mayıs 2011 olayları) refers to clashes, which happened on 20 May 2011, when the far-right ATAKA supporters and members attacked Muslims in Sofia’s only mosque.
Previous attacks on Banya Bashi mosque: The events took place just one day after the traditional commemoration of the May protests and the expulsion of 360,000 Turks from Bulgaria in the summer of 1989[5] and shortly before the Bulgarian elections.
At the very beginning, the ATAKA supporters started to shout “Turkish stooges”, “scum”, “cut-offs”, “off to Ankara”, “your feet stink, that's why you wash them” etc.
[7] During the clashes, the nationalists used wooden flagpoles, metal pipes, eggs, and stones to attack the worshippers, and the last used plastic tubing.
A few days after the events, on 23.05, Chief Mufti’s office in Sofia was vandalized with swastikas, and on 25 May and 12 June, two believers were attacked in the same mosque.
[3] 35-year-old Veli Karaahmed, one of the wounded Muslims[10] filed a case in Strasbourg against Bulgaria, because of the passivity of the police, the allowing of Islamophobic protests around a shrine, especially during the Friday prayer, and the lack of punishment for the perpetrators.