As part of the campaign, the country's communist authorities initially tried to force ethnic Bulgarian Muslims, and then ethnic Turks, to change their Turko-Arabic names to "traditional" Bulgarian ones.
U sklopu te kampanje, komunističke vlasti su prvotno pokušale prisiliti bugarske muslimane, a zatim i etničke Turke, na promjenu svojih tursko-arapskih imena u "tradicionalna" bugarska.