Les Albanais à Istanbul

Abstract

Ce dossier a pour objectif de donner une image des communautés albanaises et d'origine albanaise en Turquie et plus particulièrement à Istanbul : leur origine, leur fonctionnement et leurs relations avec les autres communautés albanaises dans les Balkans (Albanie, ex Yougoslavie, Grèce), dans le contexte géopolitique des années 1990. Ce contexte est bien sûr marqué à la fois par les crises successives qui ont marqué la décomposition de la Yougoslavie, dont la dernière, dans la province du Kosovo (1998-1999), a posé la question de la position des Albanais dans les États balkaniques où ils constituent une part significative de la population, et par l'évolution politique, économique et sociale que connaît l'Albanie depuis la chute de la dictature com muniste, au début des années 1990.

‘Friends, Balkans, Statesmen Lend Us Your Ears’: The Trans-state and State in Links between Turkey and the Balkans

“…The detoriating situation in Kosovo was key to the mobilization of Albanians in Turkey and served as a key issue around which the community in Turkey could be rallied and rejuvenated (de Rapper, 2001). Yet, at the same time, in order to gain wider support in Turkey, activists were careful to emphasize common interests between Turks and Albanians in Kosovo.…”

). Immigrant entrepreneurship in Turkey: history, development and current market

“…Another influx of migration in the first years of the republican period took place with the exchange between Turkey and Greece within the scope of the Treaty of Lausanne. Within the scope of the agreement, approximately 150,000 Greek-Orthodox people migrated from Turkey to Greece, and approximately 450,000 Muslims who classified themselves as ethnic Turks, Turks and Albanian Muslims migrated from Greece to Turkey (Arı, 1995, Geray, 1962, De Rapper, 2000. According to Akgündüz (1998Akgündüz ( ), between 1923Akgündüz ( and 1933, approximately 700,000 people immigrated to Turkey from the Balkan countries (Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and other countries).…”