{"id":785897,"date":"2023-08-19T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=785897"},"modified":"2023-10-29T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T15:32:23","slug":"how-many-turks-lived-in-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/08\/19\/how-many-turks-lived-in-balkans\/","title":{"rendered":"How many Turks lived in Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/How-many-Turks-lived-in-Balkans-approximately-before-the-Ottoman-Empire-collapsed-and-Turks-Muslims-living-there-were-forced-to-migrate-or-slaughtered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a>How many Turks lived in Balkans (approximately) before the Ottoman Empire collapsed and Turks\/Muslims living there were forced to migrate or slaughtered?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Muhacir-refugees-escaping-from-the-1912\u20131913-Balkan-war-waiting-at-the-quay-of-Ottoman-Istanbul.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-785899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Muhacir-refugees-escaping-from-the-1912\u20131913-Balkan-war-waiting-at-the-quay-of-Ottoman-Istanbul.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Muhacir-refugees-escaping-from-the-1912\u20131913-Balkan-war-waiting-at-the-quay-of-Ottoman-Istanbul-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>(Muhacir refugees escaping from the 1912\u20131913 Balkan war waiting at the quay of Ottoman \u0130stanbul)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s no exact or approximate estimate pertaining to how many Turks lived in the Balkans before the Ottoman Empire collapsed. However, over a period of a few centuries, especially after the Ottoman Empire lost almost all its territory during the Balkan War of 1912-13 and World War I, many Turks\/Muslims in Europe were forced to migrate to the Ottoman Empire. Around 10 million, to be precise. An estimated 25% to 33% of T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s 85 million population descend from these refugees who were called &#8216;Muhacir<sup data-fn=\"259940b0-1847-4261-8ce2-f37862568179\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#259940b0-1847-4261-8ce2-f37862568179\" id=\"259940b0-1847-4261-8ce2-f37862568179-link\">1<\/a><\/sup>\u2019 (transl. refugees). Millions of these people were either persecuted, exiled, or killed<sup data-fn=\"f719d3b0-bfc9-4e73-b992-3188b5d7c42d\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#f719d3b0-bfc9-4e73-b992-3188b5d7c42d\" id=\"f719d3b0-bfc9-4e73-b992-3188b5d7c42d-link\">2<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"259940b0-1847-4261-8ce2-f37862568179\">Muhacir &#8211; Wikipedia <a href=\"#259940b0-1847-4261-8ce2-f37862568179-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><li id=\"f719d3b0-bfc9-4e73-b992-3188b5d7c42d\">Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction &#8211; Wikipedia <a href=\"#f719d3b0-bfc9-4e73-b992-3188b5d7c42d-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 2\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Turks lived in Balkans (approximately) before the Ottoman Empire collapsed and Turks\/Muslims living there were forced to migrate or slaughtered? There&#8217;s no exact or approximate estimate pertaining to how many Turks lived in the Balkans before the Ottoman Empire collapsed. However, over a period of a few centuries, especially after the Ottoman Empire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":785899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Muhacir - Wikipedia\",\"id\":\"259940b0-1847-4261-8ce2-f37862568179\"},{\"content\":\"Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction - Wikipedia\",\"id\":\"f719d3b0-bfc9-4e73-b992-3188b5d7c42d\"}]"},"categories":[231],"tags":[10575,3160],"class_list":["post-785897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balkans","tag-balkanlarda-turkler","tag-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}