VENDET NGA JANË SHPËRNGULUR SHQIPTARËT NË TURQI
PLACES WERE ALBANIANS WERE SETTLED IN TURKEY

Summary/Abstract: Albanian deportment in Turkey is one of the most painful historical period in entire Albanian population. A big number of Albanians were deported in different periods of the previous century. They emigrated with a lot of difficulties and tribulations on their way to Turkey. They were chased off simply because of politics, and well-planned by Serb-Slav authority of that time the Verdict to be deported in Turkey and other places in the world, Albanians felt like a pressure from brutal repression used in a planned way and systematically realized from Serb-Slav authority during old Yugoslavia and after the World War II. Albanian residences exposed to Serb-Slav state repression were all lands inhabited for centuries by Albanians with the exception of Albanians in Administrative Albanian state. It is hard to verify from statistics from which places had more deportments to Turkey, and which can not insure from both these states Turkey and Yugoslavia. Even if we would try to get these statistics, there is no worth to us for the purpose of this study. The reason is just simple: Albanians to be deported in Turkey had “Voluntarily” to declare that they belong to Turkish Community, this was the only way to be saved from violence and Serb-Slav authority pressure. Therefore, in order to get a better view about the percentage of deported Albanians from their century lived hometowns , we made live interview and surveys with Albanians community deported in Turkey. These data were taken in different places of Turkey in order to sound safe and close to real percentages of deported Albanians from places of ethnical origin. Referring to those data we can conclude the biggest percentage of deported Albanians were from Kosovo about 84 percent, in a second place are displaced Albanians from Macedonia around 11 percent whereas one percent are deported from Preshevo valley, Albania and Çam ( Greece). A considerable number of interviewed and surveyed people did not know from where they were deported to Turkey. These Albanians were descended born there and they had no knowledge where do they come from. There was a worm welcome from Turkish authority and population for Albanian deported people. Almost all interviewed person expressed good words for the way of reception of Turkish Authority as Turkish people. From this we can conclude that deported Albanians were treated nicely as they were brothers. In the beginning of the surviving deported Albanians were faced with a lot of difficulties, the hardest one was language contact, accommodation and settlement.

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