Gagauz Halkı | |
Colorcode: | red |
Flag: | Flag of the Gagauz people.svg |
Founder: | Stepan Bulgar |
Founded: | February 1988 |
Country: | Moldova |
Banned: | 22 August 1990, continued to exist until 1999 |
Ideology: | Big tent Soviet nationalism (early) Gagauz nationalism Autonomism[1] Russophilia Anti-Romanian sentiment[2] |
Gagauz Halkı ("Gagauz People") was a Gagauz separatist political party in Moldova.[3] It was led by from at least as early as 1992 until at least as recently as 1999, after which the organization ceased to be listed by the CIA World Factbook.[4] The Moldovan government outlawed the party two days after declaring such political movements to be unconstitutional.[5]
The party supported the 1991 Soviet coup d'etat attempt and strongly opposed the possible idea of the unification of the Moldovan SSR and Romania.[6]