Peoples of Balkan in Turkey

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Peoples of Balkan in Turkey, (Turkish: Balkan Muhacirleri or Balkan Göçmenleri) are Rumelian-Turks like the Balkans-Yörüks and Gajal[1], [2] and other ethnic Non Turks Balkan peoples, the Muslim Slavs like Pomak, Gorani, Bosniaks, Torbesh, Chitatsi, Non Slavs Muslim like Patriyotlar, Nantinets, Albanians and Xoraxane Roma who are Muslims, living in Turkey.[3] At the Greek War of Independence 1821–1829, Crimean War 1853–1856, Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878),[4] Balkan Wars 1912-1913, World War I 1914-1918, Greco-Turkish War 1919 -1922, the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 and the Explusion of Turks from Yugoslavia in 1938,[5] and aftermath of World War II 1945-1968,[6] many Balkans Muslims of different Ethnicity was expelled from the those parts of the Balkans, who once belongend to the Ottoman Empire to settle in Turkey.[7],[8],[9]

Peoples of Balkan in Turkey
Balkan Muhacirleri
Popujt e Ballkanit në Turqi
Narodi Balkana u Turskoj
Балканските народи в Турция
Total population
7.000.000–8.000.000[a]
Bosniaks: 5.000.000–8.000.000[10][11]
Albanians: 2.000.000[12][13]
Languages
Turkish (majority), Albanian, Slavic languages, Romani language.
Religion
Sunni Islam, Sufism, Bektashi

References[change | change source]

  1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278023076_Autochthon_Turkish_Existence_in_the_Balkans
  2. "Rumelian Turks: Ottoman migrants from Balkans to Anatolia". Daily Sabah. 17 February 2017.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-29. Retrieved 2022-06-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Jagodić, Miloš (1998). "The Emigration of Muslims from the New Serbian Regions 1877/1878". Balkanologie. 2 (2). doi:10.4000/balkanologie.265. S2CID 140637086.
  5. "1938 | Convention Regulating the Emigration of the Turkish Population from the Region of Southern Serbia in Yugoslavia".
  6. https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/rajkovic_nikolina.pdf
  7. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286766087_Ethnicity_class_and_politicisation_Immigrant_Roma_tobacco_workers_in_Turkey
  8. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-02. Retrieved 2022-05-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Expulsion and Emigration of the Muslims from the Balkans".
  10. Yenigun 2009, p. 184.
  11. Saunders 2011, p. 98.
  12. Miszczak 2019.
  13. Miszczak 2016.

Sources[change | change source]

  • Yenigun, Cuneyt (2009). GCC Model: Conflict Management for the "Greater Albania" (PDF). SDU Faculty of Arts and Sciences Journal of Social Sciences. p. 184. Turkey contains 5-6 million Albanians (more than in the Balkan area).
  • Miszczak, Izabela (2019). Gallipoli Peninsula and the Troad. ASLAN Publishing House. ISBN 978-83-953130-0-4. Among other nationalethnic minorities living in Turkey we should mention Circassians (2.5 million), Bosniaks (2 million), Albanians, Georgians, Arabs, and Pomaks (Muslim Slavs).
  • Saunders, Robert A. (2011). Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace: The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity. Lanham: Lexington Books. p. 98. ISBN 9780739141946. There are upwards of 5 million ethnic Albanians in the Turkish Republic; (...)
  • Miszczak, Izabela (2016). Antalya, Side and Alanya. ASLAN Publishing House. ISBN 978-83-939141-8-0. Among other nationalethnic minorities living in Turkey we should mention Circassians (2.5 million), Bosniaks (2 million), Albanians, Georgians, Arabs, and Pomaks (Muslim Slavs).

Notes[change | change source]

  1. Including the Turkified ones.