The eminent journalist-author, folklorist and linguist, etnographer, translator and researcher-writer Salih Baklaci (1924-2002), who grew up in a house of a mufti in Shumen, one of the cultural centers of Northeastern Bulgaria, worked and lived in Sophia until 1989, where he went for university education. Although he knew that he would lose his job in Balkanology Institute of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, he reflected his reaction fearlessly against mandatory Bulgarianization practices for Bulgarian Turks (1984-1985) and he was sentenced to two and a half years at the age of 61. He did not resign himself despite pressures and clearly expressed the violations of human rights, and harshly criticized the government. On July 3rd, 1989, he was deported with a suitcase at the age of 65 and a few months later, he started to work as a nontenured researcher at the Center of Southeast European Studies in Edirne affiliated with Istanbul University. He started to rewrite his most important study, which was stolen from the printing house and destroyed by the Intelligence Service in Bulgaria and he completed his invaluable work, Proverbs of Bulgarian Turks, in Turkey, he never lost his belief that one day this study would attract the attention of our science world and would be published. However, his applications were unsuccessful and he passed away without seeing his book, that he could not publish because of financial problems. The fact that this valuable work published three months after his death is not known in the science world, is not found in National Library, does not appear in short Turkish biophraphical writings about him, is a serious deficiency for those who study our proverbs. The science and Turkish struggle he showed in communist Bulgaria that he worked under pressure and lost his freedom, the fact that his studies are known better in this country and much more information are found on Bulgarian web sites about him, should be learned. The purpose of this study is to reveal sad life story of the eminent researcher Salih Baklaci and his Turkish struggle in communist Bulgaria. Furthermore, his invaluable studies on formulaic vocabulary, folklore, literature, translation are mentioned in detail. Above all, the aim of this study is to make people not to forget and draw the attention of the scientific world to the treatise, Proverbs of Bulgarian Turks, which was destroyed in Bulgaria and he rewrote in Turkey with great expectations but is about to be forgotten.