Invoking the 1907 Hague Convention, the Romanian government interned nearly 38,000 Dobrujans of non-Romanian origin in north of Iaşi, Moldavia during the First World War.Of them, 60% were of Bulgarian origin, and nearly 15% were Turkish. They were transported under difficult conditions - on foot, by river barges and by railway echelons to special camps. Nearly 3/4 of the internees died in the camps they were brought to. According to the Romanian authorities, the internment was only to the male population between 18-60 years old, and the rest (women, children, eldery) would be warned that they should not do anything wrong. However, this didn’t happen - the Bulgarian newspaper "Dobrudzha", which was published in Babadag, published the names, age and birthplace of every single internee. It can be seen that the internees are not only men, but there are also many children, as well as girls between the ages of 15-19.
Balchik was one of the cities that suffered the most from the internment. 73 citizens were abducted for work in Moldavia, 50 of them Turks. In Kavarna, 134 people were interned to Moldavia and 32 of them were Turks. Tutrakan was another city that lost many people - there were 691 interned, including 113 Turks. Among the Tutrakan Turks who went to Moldavia were also the child members of the Hüseyinov family - Nuriye (11), Vejdi (8) and Bahri (1). Even villages like Söyütçük (Vodno in Silistra), Nasradın (Bisertsi in Razgrad), Hacıköseler (Krushari in Dobrich) and Karayamurlar (Poroyno in Silistra) didn’t manage to go unnoticed. The total number of evicted people from these four villages alone is 327, of which 247 are Turks and 80 are Bulgarians.