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Not really, Turkic Chuvashes are closest people to them, probably along with Misher/Kazan Tatars.
Actually it was Russians who promoted Bulgarian rebellion/aggression against Ottoman Empire by using pan-Slavism. As I said if you're talking about Communist period, pro-Turkic theory supporters were oppressed.This falsification of Bulgarian history has pre-Communist roots. People say that Catherine the Great hired some German historians to rewrite Slavic history. They created this Turkic theory with the goal to make people believe that Bulgarians are not Slavs and that Russians are responsible for the archievments of the Bulgarian empire.
Onur is as "Bulgarian" as you're Greek and Macedonian.
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