Official site of Youth Movement for Rights and Freedoms

Youth Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Youth MRF) has always been a youth wing from the time of its establishment until today, an integral part of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF).

Youth has constantly been a driving force during the emergence and development of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms. During the last years of the totalitarian regime the Movement for Rights and Freedoms was established as an illegal organization of young people: Ahmed Dogan (then at the age of 32) and his companies.

As early as 1990, while building the structures of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms in the country, were set up the first MRF student units in the academic centers: Varna, Sofia, Shumen, Plovdiv, Kardjali, etc. Those organizations emerged spontaneously as an expression of the aspiration among young people for pluralism and democracy to gain a platform where they could show their new aspirations for meetings, discussions, youth entertainments, turkish language courses and so on. For many years these student organizations existed and operated independently, without any centralized structure, helping a lot of young people to learn more about the MRF ideas and to engage in the organizational life of the local structures of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms.

Only at the end of 1997 and early 1998 the idea of ​​creating a unified youth organization of the MRF with a centralized management occured and was approved. Then a group of young enthusiasts working and cooperating with the MRF headquarters, had the mission to travel around the country and to unite existing at that time youth and student units, as well as to establish the new ones where there were suitable conditions. The implementation of this task led to conducting in Shumen, in August 1998, the First (Constituent) National Conference of the Youth Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which established the Union of Academic and Youth Organizations in the MRF (UAYO in the MRF). A Statute was adopted and a central bureu of the Union of Academic and Youth Organizations in the MRF chaired by Mustafa Karadaya was elected.