Изселническият въпрос на мюсюлманите албанци и турци от Югославия след Втората световна война
The Emigration Issue of the Albanian and Turkish Muslims from Post-war Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: Because of the conflict with Kominform in June 1948 and the deterioration of the Yugoslav-Albanian relationship, Belgrade leadership was worried for the reaction of the Albanian population in Yugoslavia. At the same time, to limit the demographic and ethnic invasion of the Albanians in Kosovo, Yugoslav authorities started political campaign for their exportation. After the signing of the Yugoslav-Turkish agreement in 1953, which confirmed the convention from 1938 for the exportation of the Turks from Yugoslavia in Turkey, the emigration in Turkey not only of Turks, but also Albanians, was legalized. Albanians in the Yugoslav federation got the possibility to define themselves as "Turks", and thus to emigrate in Turkey (not Albania). In that way many Albanians in Yugoslavia, mainly from Kosovo and Macedonia, declared themselves as "Turks". This agreement stated that those who emigrated to Turkey had no right to return to Yugoslavia.

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