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 zemlje inicijalno su pokušale da primoraju bugarske Muslimane, a zatim i lokalne Turke, da promene svoja tursko-arapska imena u „tradicionalna“ bugarska.