Forty years ago, the communist authorities in Bulgaria began a brutal repression of the country's ethnic Turkish community.

The Construction Corps built much of Bulgaria's 20th-century infrastructure but was also used during the communist era to punish opponents of the regime and maintain control over ethnic minorities.

Sougareva, M. 1995. Marriages and divorces of the ethnic groups in Bulgaria (with the data of the last population census), Naselenie (1–2):113–23 (in Bulgarian). Sowards, S. 1996. Twenty-five lectures ...