From the Press Heritage of the Turkish-Tatar Romania: Bora

The historical infrastructure of the Turkish existence in the Balkan Peninsula goes back to an ancient past. The region has been one of the frequented routes of Turkish tribes since the Scythian pe-riod. Numerous heirlooms, both in language and in the physical sense, about the Turkish cultural presence in the region, are of a nature that explains this historical sequence. Besides the Anatolian origin, Balkan geography also includes the Crimean Turkish-Ta-tar community, which has settled in Romania and Bulgaria, as a result of the immigration required by Russian expansionism and the policies implemented. Bora (Viscolul), which is a part of the press life of the Turkish-Ta-tar community in Romania, was published in 1938-1939. Alt-hough it had a short publishing life like twelve issues, it is one of the relics left for the future in terms of operating with the Silistra (Durostor) of Dobrudja region at the time of its publication. It is important that the Turkish-Tatar society, which had to live under the political influence of another dominant force other than its homeland, gave life to a magazine like Bora with the awareness of national consciousness. The aim of our study is to explain the content of this periodical, which had been operating in Balkan geography and make it known.