Tire Nüfus Arşivinde Bulunan Bir Muhacir Mülteci Defteri Örneği
A Sample of Muhacir and Refugee Registers in Tire Registry Office

Summary/Abstract: There have been many causes of international migration. One of these is muhacerat- status of being muhacir. Muhacerat is migration of a person, a family or a society from a country to another country. It is a sort of asylum. It needs to have a link to the country, which is taken refuge in, such as race relations or religious relations. It is a troubled process due to obscurity of happenings met throughout the migration until reaching country of asylum. Besides, uncertainty about where to be settled in the country of asylum, how to be climatic conditions or living conditions there, is a big problem. Certificate of naturalisation is not given immediately and it needs some transitional stages. One of these is muhacir and refugee registers in which their informations are recorded till naturalisation. A sample of these registers has been in the archive of Tire Registry Office in İzmir. It was kept records of muhacirs and refugees coming to Tire till 1940 in this register. It was determined general informations, races and native lands of people and other family members. They were mostly from Yugoslavia and their race were Turks. They were temporarily registered in a neighbourhood and it was written administrative units and houses, where they were principally settled, in the section of thoughts. Photographs of some of them were attached to the pages, on which their informations had been, and it was written their residential addresses. This register was confirmed by judge of the county in 1935. It consists of ninety pages. Its size is 50x70 cm. It was not met with the another book in the same way in the archives of registry or other registry offices.

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