The Emigration Of Muslims From Former Yugoslavia To Turkey After The Fall Of Ottoman Empire
The Emigration Of Muslims From Former Yugoslavia To Turkey After The Fall Of Ottoman Empire

Author(s): Sami Mehmeti, Bekim Nuhija
Subject(s): Economic history, Recent History (1900 till today), Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Ottoman Empire; Turkey; Yugoslavia; migration; settlement;
Summary/Abstract: When the last territories belonging to the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans were annexed by the Balkan states they increased their attempts to change the demographic structure of the conquered territories and this contributed to the willingness of Muslims to emigrate. Migration also became key issue to the nationalization strategies of Turkey which related to the question of how to integrate the ethnically, culturally and linguistically diversified population of Turkey. Since Non-Turkish Muslim communities from the former Yugoslavia were considered as part of the common Ottoman heritage, they were settled to regions such as Thrace and Eastern Anatolia.

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