In February 2014, more than 1,000 people from across Bulgaria protested against the decision of the Plovdiv Court to return the Kurshun Mosque in Karlovo, which had been nationalized during the communist era. The same month, protesters threw stones and smoke bombs at the Jumaya Mosque in Plovdiv. They waved signs holding "Stop the Islamization of Bulgaria." Similar protests were supported by the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria. In July 2014, for the first time in Bulgaria's democratic history, the President of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev hosted an iftar dinner. The iftar took place in the President's Boyana Residence and was attended by the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the National Assembly, party leaders, and representatives of all religions in the country. Notable Bulgarian Muslims Ahmed Dogan, politician Lyutvi Mestan, politician Mustafa Karadaya, politician Tsvetan Teofanov, translator of the Quran into Bulgarian See also Islam by country Bulgarian Muslims Pomaks Alians Turks in Bulgaria Crimean Tatars in Bulgaria List of mosques in Bulgaria References Sources Further reading Kristen R. Ghodsee, Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria, Princeton University Press, 2009.