The Examples of Mass Migration in the Republican Period and an Evaluation on Integration

Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate Turkey, which has been exposed to many mass migration flows throughout the history of the Republic, and especially the immigrants accepted in the first years of the Republic, through some examples in the context of mass migration and integration. In the period following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, we see from the historical documents that the conflicts, especially in the lands under the Ottoman rule, reached the peak, we also see that Turks and Muslims, who are former Ottoman citizens living in this geography, remained in the minority and were exposed to political assimilation policies. In this study, although the mass movements of the Turkish or Muslim people who remained in the minority in the post-Ottoman Balkans or the movements of Muslim Turks were examined, the situation of the immigrants of Jewish origin from Germany was also evaluated. The treatment faced by those who had to leave the regions they live in for various reasons in the regions they came from and what their effects were on this region were emphasized.