Razgrad incident

Although Ankara and Sofia were able to quickly restore relations, the situation increased nationalism in both countries and affected their minorities.

[1] From a journalistic point of view, three Turks in Bulgaria who were at the center of the spread of the news either illegally left the country or were expelled.

[8] The attack caused a great panic among the Turkish population of Razgrad, who cried all night in the cemetery.

[10] The attack gained popularity when Razgrad journalist Mahmut Necmettin Deliorman and Arif Necib found out about it and published it in their newspapers.

Krastyo Pastuhov, who blamed Bulgarian nationalist said: "What do you plan to do to prevent our relations with the Republic of Turkey from deteriorating?

In a later statement made by the Bulgarian government it was claimed that the Turkish Cemetery was located within the land expropriated for a park planned to be built in Razgrad, but since the Turks did not comply with the decision to evacuate the area and continued to use it as a cemetery, a group of Bulgarians decided to "accelerate the expropriation decision".

Released thanks to a conversation with Prime Minister Nikola Mushanov and the Turkish ambassador in Sofia, Deliorman was soon beaten to death and thrown into a sewer hole by members of the Committee for Free Thrace.

[16] The Kingdom of Greece, around 200 Bulgarian dental students in Istanbul, Belgrade consulate in Turkey condemned the event,[4] the Times covered the attack as well.

The Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet covered the incident and called it "an unbelievable event in Bulgaria" and claimed that "around 150 bodies were exhumed".

Other newspapers that covered the topic were Deliorman (first newspaper that covered the incident), Anadolu Ajansı, Karadeniz and Trakya; famous columnist and politicians such as Abidin Daver, Necmettin Sadık, Tevfik Rüştü, Peyami Safa, and Yunus Nadi dedicated various articles for the incident.

[2] In one of them Yunus Nadi wrote: Knowing that the Deliorman Turks are a very hard-working, honorable and truly brave element in Bulgaria makes our sorrow for this terrible incident even stronger.

Besides negotiations[1] about neutrality he was in Razgrad as well with the aim of getting a closer look at the attack and finding out about the situation of the Turkish minority in the country.