Turkey,are Turkey can consider a Balkan

 

They were also tolerant of Christians, nor did they impose Islam on the Balkans, however, in Bosnia the vast majority became Muslim about four generations into the Ottoman period of Bosnian history, and there were many other countries-regions where the Muslim populations was substantial, I never said that the entire Balkan peninsula had been majority Muslim, that was never the case but the statistics were much closer than they are now, a mass exodus, some forced, some voluntary, in addition to many incidents of killings/persecution, and forced (re?)conversion did occur in the mid 1800s. The Christians had to pay because it was seen as a "privilege" if you will to serve in the army, not necessarily the view of the countless victims who died in the Balkan wars, for example Bosnia's Muslim population severely declined in one period of wars because the supply of fresh troops fell largely on the Bosnian province. Either way, Islam is an important part of the Balkans, culturally at least, many of the same cultural norms, in addition to food and music are shared by all ethnicities of the Balkans.
One example would be hygiene, no shoes in the house, etc, a lot of Islamic customs that Islam adopted, then through interaction spread to the Christian members as well.

 

 

I never claimed that the Muslim population had been in the majority, just that it had been much more sizable than now due to various factors some that bordered on like I said genocide, that is one reason why Serbia doesn't have many Muslims today, not counting the Sandzak area, because that had been part of the Bosnian province and earlier the Bosnian kingdom. My other claim was that it did have more influence than just a minimal one.

 

In such a concern , I'd call Turkiye in terms of Balcanic articles .