The Muslim exodus and the emergence of the modern Serbian State in the first half of the 19th century
By Krzysztof Popek , Ph.D One of the main goals of Serbian Uprisings was to banish Muslims from Serbian lands. The Serbian policy towards Muslims…
Genocide
The Principality of Bulgaria, the Sublime Porte, and the Muslim Minority (1878-1885)
By Krzysztof Popek , Ph.D After the Berlin Congress and separating Muslim communities in Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire, the Sublime Porte wanted to protect…
1944-1945 ATROCITIES AGAINST THE ALBANIAN PEOPLE OF CHAMERYA
by Turhan Şen, Mardin Artuklu University The concepts of atrocity, massacre and genocide have been politicized throughout history in terms of the way they are…
Greek Atrocities During The Great Offensive: Setting Fires
by Professor Uğur Üçüncü, Black Sea Technical University of Trabzon The Ottoman Empire accepted defeat in the Great War and signed the Armistice of Mondros.…
The “Red Terror”: The Genocide of the Kazakhs
In September 1925, Soviet state and party leader Josef Stalin appointed party comrade Filipp Goloshchyokin as First Secretary of the Kazakh Regional Committee of the…
159 Years of Tsitsekun: The Genocide of the Circassians
After more than 300 years of warfare against the indigenous peoples of the Caucasus, the army of the Russian Tsarist Empire succeeded in bringing the…
“Banishment to death” – Mezalim to the Crimean Tatars 79 years ago
79 years ago today, on May 18, 1944, more than 400,000 Crimean Tatars were deported from their homeland on the orders of the Soviet Union’s…
May 15, 1919: The prelude to the invasion and depopulation of Western Anatolia
It is May 15, 1919, when at 7:30 a.m. the Greek warships Patris and Atronitos moor at the port of Izmir and soldiers of the…
De-Ottomanization of Land. Muslim Migrations and Ownership in the Bulgarian Countryside after 1878
By Krzysztof Popek, Ph.D Land was of crucial importance to the Bulgarian society, which until the mid-20th century primarily inhabited rural areas, and was mainly…