Yugoslavia
See also: Turks of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turks of Croatia, Turks of Kosovo, Turks of the Republic of Macedonia, and Turks of MontenegroImmigration from Yugoslavia started in the 1800s as a consequence of the Russian-supported Serb rebellions. Approximately 150,000 Turks immigrated to Anatolia in 1826, and then, in 1867, a similar number of Turks moved to Anatolia. Upon the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey, 350,000 Turks arrived in Turkey between 1923 and 1930. An additional 160,000 people immigrated to Turkey after the establishment of Communist Yugoslavia from 1946 to 1961. Since 1961, immigrants from that Yugoslavia amounted to 50,000 people.
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“International relations is security, it’s trade relations, it’s power games. It’s not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia was pure evil. Not ethnic hatred—that’s only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...”
—Natasha Dudinska (b. c. 1967)