Avrupa’dan Türkiye’ye Yahudi Göçünün Stratejik Olarak Kullanılması (1880-1920)
Strategic Use of Jewish Migration from Europe to Turkey (1880 - 1920)

Summary/Abstract: Jews, coming from Eastern Europe and Russia, who were Ottoman citizens, were allowed in the country by processing necessary procedures in customs house. But in 1890’s, Ottomans were having difficulties in coping with Jewish migration. Citizens of foreign states were coming to Ottoman lands secretly. Britons were following a certain politic line in Syria and Arabia against Ottoman State. Jew settlement in Palestine was an international political card now. Ottoman State had doubts about policies of foreign countries and in the same period, before Jews’Zionist Organisation has been installed, Jews’colonies in Palestine reached to number 20. They started organizing a kind of autonomy and even coined money. After that, Abdülhamid II restricted them in buying land and traveling. But he couldn’t get what he wanted because of the capitulations and political weakness. Abdulhamid administration, that couldn’t success in its plans against Jews, tried to rotate Jewish migration to regions except for Palestine; like İzmir, Selanik and Bursa. The target was to use Jews against Bulgarians in Selanik and Greeks in Western Anatolia. There wasn’t a big difference in Jewish policy after 1908 too. Ittihat Terakki that couldn’t stop Jewish migration to Ottoman land, preferred to settle them into İzmir, Selanik, Bursa Macedonia and Mesopotamia.

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