at the time as dick turks went just having a difficult time in greece. in neighboring bulgaria joining the 1980 s. the communist authorities embarked on a brutal policy of force assimilation including giving ethnic turks slavic names. the sort of the impetus for that because of the so that it's because their names were changed through christian names which for a muslim to have a christian name is inference. and. 1991 thing great 350000 troops left for the u.k. . it's unsurprising that so many left people would be eaten and fined just for speaking turkish thousands were jailed across the country at places like better than a an infamous to tension center where 500 turks were. imprisoned without trial for resisting the forcible changing of the names. but that was bulgaria a communist dictatorship in greece the birthplace of democracy in the heart of the e.u. things were supposed to be different but athens has always been a world away from west and thrice and most just geographically as we soon find for ourselves from the moment we arrived in the region to ma