Formation of a Diasporic Community: The History of Migration and Resettlement of Muslim Albanians in the Black Sea Region of Turkey

Şerife Geniş; Kelly Lynne Maynard

DOI:10.1080/00263200903009619

Corpus ID: 143742189

Formation of a Diasporic Community: The History of Migration and Resettlement of Muslim Albanians in the Black Sea Region of Turkey

@article{Geni2009FormationOA,
  title={Formation of a Diasporic Community: The History of Migration and Resettlement of Muslim Albanians in the Black Sea Region of Turkey},
  author={Şerife Geniş and Kelly Lynne Maynard},
  journal={Middle Eastern Studies},
  year={2009},
  volume={45},
  pages={553 - 569}
}

Şerife Geniş, Kelly Lynne Maynard

Published 2009

Sociology

Middle Eastern Studies

As the successor to the multi-ethnic, multi-religious Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey inherited many non-Turkish-speaking Muslim communities. This article is concerned with Albanians in Turkey, one of the Muslim communities which migrated in large numbers to Anatolia during and after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire to escape conflict and massacre in the Balkans. Based on historical studies and oral history interviews, we account for the Albanian migration to Turkey during the 1912–13 Balkan… CONTINUE READING

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