THE SVISHTOV ADVENTURE OF 1867 AND MIDHAT PASHA: THE STORY OF A BETRAYAL, PUNISHMENT AND REPENTANCE WITH MANY TEACHINGS

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  • LANGUAGE: Bulgarian
  • PAGE RANGE: 102 -121
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  • FIRST PUBLISHED: 6 August 2026
  • VOLUME/ISSUE: 10
  • PUBLISHER: Institute for Literature
  • ORGANIZATION: Institute for Literature - BAS, BULGARIA
  • ISSN (Print): 2738-7631 || ISSN (Online): 2815-2999
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    Hüseyin Mevsim

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    • Ankara University, Faculty of Language, History and Geography
    • Turkey

    • Hüseyin Mevsim is a Professor, PhD, of Bulgarian Language and Literature at Ankara University, Turkey. He was born in the village of Kozlevo, Kardzhali Province (1964). He completed his secondary education in Momchilgrad and obtained his higher degree in Bulgarian Philology from the University of Plovdiv (1989). He settled in the Republic of Turkey in 1991, residing initially in Bursa and Istanbul, and subsequently in Ankara (2001), where he earned his Master's degree (2002) and PhD (2005).

      He is the author of numerous monographs, studies, and research works in the fields of literary history and Bulgarian-Turkish cultural and literary relations.

      Key Publications:

      • "Chudomir's Journey to Turkey (1932)"

      • "Between Two Shores" (Annual Award of the Bulgarian Translators' Union for Original Non-Fiction, 2014)

      • "Nikola Furnadzhiev and Istanbul"

      • "Petar Dachev and Istanbul"

      • "Borderland: Pages from Bulgarian-Turkish Cultural Relations" ("Hristo G. Danov" National Award for Humanities, 2020)

      • "Atanas Dalchev in Thessaloniki and Istanbul" (Special Helikon Award for Outstanding Literary-Historical Contribution, 2022)

      He actively translates poetry, drama, and documentary literature across Bulgarian, Turkish, and Russian.

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  Abstract:

  Midhat Pasha, the Governor-General of the Danube Vilayet, managed to unravel the complex knot of the Svishtov Adventure of May 1867 thanks to the betrayal of Yordan Gergitsov, who was one of the main organizers. Several dozens of young people from Svishtov, who were sentenced to exile in Diyarbakir, were pardoned prematurely with the decisive intercession of the Grand Vizier Midhat Pasha. In the proposed text, the Svishtov Adventure is viewed as a story full of lessons and teachings about betrayal, punishment and storytelling.

  Subject: East of the New Age

  Keywords: Danube Vilayet Svishtov Adventure Midhat Pasha Yordan Gergitsov Diyarbakir exiles repentance

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