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In the Name of the Constitution: Ethnic Minorities and Technologies of Disenfranchisement in Bulgaria

Bulgarian ethnic Turks women carry their children prior a mass circumcision ceremony in the mosque of Bulgaria's southern town of Kardzhali in the Rhodope mountains, 04 October 2003. Bulgarian ethnic Turks comprise around 10 percent of the Balkan country's population of some eight million. AFP PHOTO DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF

Note from the editors: Starting next month Bulgaria will assume the presidency of the Council of the European Union. To acknowledge this momentous occasion, this month LeftEast will carry two texts by Jana Tsoneva analyzing the politics of contemporary Bulgaria. This article originally appeared in July on the Serbo-Croatian portal Bilten and is republished here […]