@article{2017,title={THE IMMIGRATION MOVEMENT FROM THE BALKANS TO ANATOLIA BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR},abstractNode={The changes in the viewpoints of the European states that started in the 19th and 20th centuries towards the fields of Ottoman sovereignity became a problem named “Eastern Policy” in time. The Balkans in the Ottoman sovereignity were among the paces of splitting The Ottoman Empire, i.e. “Eastern Question.” According to the plan, firstly the Turkish people were going to be deported from The Balkans and Rumelia to Anatolia. In accordance with this purpose the European states were planning to weaken the dominance of Turkish people over all the non-muslim societies and subordinating them to the Christians. Great European states achieved this goal to a large extent with Treaty of San Stefano and Berlin Treaty. Great changes happened in the Balkans and Rumelia with the Balkan Wars and so the Ottoman Empire lost its dominance in these fields to a great extent. In this new period there was a great population migration from these fields to Anatolia. This movement of migration, by hundred thousands of people, is important also in terms of that it happend in the collapse period the Ottoman Empire. As these migrations caused some new economical and social troubles in the Ottoman Empire, some problems aroused in Anatolian territories. Despite these problems the Ottoman dignitaries and the nation helped their muslim co-religionists who refuged to the Empire escaping from cruelty and torture. This muslim people who had come from the Balkans and Rumelia had a great role in developement of national and moral feelings of the Anatolian nation before the First World War.},author={İsmail KORKMAZ},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}