BROJ SANDŽAČKIH BOŠNJAKA U TURSKOJ
NUMBER OF BOSNIAKS FROM SANDZAK IN TURKEY

Summary/Abstract: A territory that is colloquially called Sandzak represents one of those South Slavic regions that remained under Ottoman rule for the longest time. Merely in 1912/13, the northern part of this territory became part of Serbia and southern part of Montenegro. Then commence and the mass migration of Sandzak Bosniaks to Turkey (untill 1923, the Ottoman Empire), which lasted until the late 1960s. Migrations led to the emergence of a strong Bosniak-Sandzak diaspora in that country. However, its number is not really known. Due to that, there are numerous speculations and even those that calculate with millions of immigrants. The paper, using primarily the data from the Yugoslav censuses from 1921 and 1971, and insight into the demographic growth of Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the growth of the Turkish population we tried to determine the approximate number of Sandzak Bosniaks in Turkey. Primarily the number of those who had emigrated between the two censuses i.e. their descendants.

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