BEKTASHI, QIZILBASH, ALEVI ALVANLAR (YABLANOVO) VILLAGE IN POSTDEMOCRATIC BULGARIA DEMOKRASİ SONRASI BULGARİSTAN’DA BEKTAŞİ, KIZILBAŞ, ALEVİ ALVANLAR (YABLANOVO) KÖYÜ

This study aimed to examine the ethno-religious situation of Bektashi, Qizilbash and Alevis in Bulgaria after Bulgaria's accession to the European Union, in the example of Alvanlar village (Yablanovo) in Sliven province. It was investigated in the example of Bektashi, Kizilbash, Alevis Alvans (Yablanovo) village in Bulgaria. After a period of ten years, a new research on the village of Alvanlar has been made and the change that has occurred has been followed. Especially after the Republic of Bulgaria's transition to democracy and accession to the European Union, the practices against the Turks, who are among the minorities in Bulgaria, and the developments regarding the non-fulfillment of the cultural rights demands of the Bektashi, Qizilbash and Alevis, who constitute a considerable number among the Turks, have been monitored. After the article gives information about the importance and method of the research, the village of Alvanlar in Bulgarias Sliven Province is briefly introduced. Secondly, information is given about Alevism-Bektashism in Bulgaria, whose history goes back to the pre-Ottoman era. The history of the village of Alvanlar in the province of Sliven, Bulgaria, and the religious and national practices and difficulties faced by the Bektashi, Qizilbash, Alevis of the Alvanlar village are included. Especially in the socialist period of Bulgaria, the center of the struggle, which resisted the systematic oppression and assimilation policy against the Turkish and Muslim people, is the village of Alvanlar/Yablanovo. In this respect, the village of Alvanlar/Yablanovo is an important settlement in Bulgaria both in the transition to democracy and in the preservation of the Turkish-Muslim identity. It is also the center of Ali Koç Baba, his children and Ali Koç Babas Ojak, who both carry and protect the memory of the dervishes who traveled from Khorasan to Anatolia and from Anatolia to Rumelia.
Keywords: Bektashism, Qizilbashs, Alevism, Yablanovo, Alvanlar, Sliven, Bulgaria.