Being Muslim the Bosniak Way

No, im not making this up

Here are some more famous Bosniak Turks, and ccheck their influence in Turkish public life

7 out of 9 top Turkish general have Bosnian roots, one even have his last Slavic name Kilic Safet

Tarik Tara head of Emka construction is Bosniak roots, there was interview when he came to Bosnia, and he said his family is from Lower Kolasin, and he chose his last name Tara,because of river that flows near Kolasin, now Montenegro.Untill 1878 this was completely Bosniak town.Bosniaks emigrated to Turkey for 300+Years and part of Ottoman empire, which is in Arab world from 1878.Try to remember there were some 200 000 Bosniaks in Turkey by mid 1850, and this was not period of higher Bosniak emigration, when they had to flew homes from Serbs and Croats.My distant relatives fled to Turkey back in 1911, then it was still Ottoman empire.Most Bosniaks came before 1924 into Ottoman empire, but after world war 2, lot came also

There are surprising. over 20 000 Arab last names, which ends in Balkash, and Bosneli,Bosnevi, which would mean man from Bosnia.

Il paste article about that, just after i finish writing this thread, about that

Another famous Bosniaks
3 out of top 5 Turkish basketball players
Asim Pras,Turkouglu and Turkcan Mirsad, real name Jahovic

Cem Uzan is also of Bosniak descent

How much Bosniaks influenced Turkish economy, you dont need map, just go through Istanbul and you will see parts like
Bosna carse
Yeni Bosna
Whole towns of 100 000 which are ethnicaly Bosniak like Gazi Suleymanpasa
Eyler Souzi
And many other Bosniak neighborhods in Turkey

Whole economy my friend around Divan Oglu or Yolu, sorry for my mistake, is run by Bosniaks from Sandzak region!

7 out of 9 top Turkish general have Bosnian roots, one even have his last Slavic name Kilic Safet

We don't have the official numbers of Bosniak population in Turkiye but i'll say you just the estimated numbers..

The populations of some districts of Istanbul where Bosniaks are living by majority..:

80.000 in Yildirim Mahala
25.000 in Alibeykoy
60.000 in Pendik


There are also some more districts whee Bosniaks are living but not as majority..

Tuzla about 25.000 of total population(100.000)
Umraniye 10.000 of 200.000
Besiktas(Barbaros) 15.000 of 400.000

There are more Bosniaks than these numbers in Istanbul, but these are only the estimated numbers of them that i know. If you ask me, there are not less than 400.000 Bosniaks in Istanbul

Written by Turk by the way

Not sure,no, what kinda Turk you are not to know Kilic Safet is head of your airforce.

If I am bosniak, I will not call cem uzan as bosniak, but serb. He is a little infamous at Turkey.

violentjack
mostly bosnians lives in sakarya,istanbul and bursa
kusum aydin, i know bosnians
we love our bosnian brothers

Hidajet Turkovic is his real name

Turkoglu

His parents are Bosniaks from Sandzak region emigrated into Turkey mid 70,s where Hido was born.

As Salam Mila!  I really enjoyed this thread, thanks! 

Originally posted by violentjack Bosniak population is around 8 or 9 million Only in Albania there is some 50 000 Bosniaks,but most declare themself as other or Albanian from pressure,but when census is done they are still Bosniak.Some 80% ,rest consider themself as Bosniak.There is town in Albania with some 20 000 people,more then third of people consider themself Bosniaks,but with pressure and some respect,for host Albanians,declare themself as Albanians There is also town called Debar in Macedonia,where Macedonians dont count Bosniaks,but just put Gorani or Torbeshi,though those people dont feel like that

Btw also don't forget our Bosniaks brothers from Kosova (Bosniaks, but not Goranci/Gorani) which live in central, western and soutern Kosovo. Due to Albanian being majority, and that Slavs generally in Kosova were associated with "Christian Orthodoxy" by the majority of Albanians, many Bosniaks have adopted Albanians identity while at the same time conserving the fact of their Bosniak origin. Today you can find in more than 20% of Kosovari Albanians surname to be of Bosniaks/Slavic name and which was modified to become more Albanian like.

Official figures of Gorani (Muslim Slavs) of Kosova is 20,000 while unofficial put them at 50,000 with more than 30,000 having adopted the majority "Albanian" identity, since it's only the religion that unites the majority of Kosovari Albanians, with the Bosniaks and Goranci there.
    

Edited by Zmaj - 20-Jun-2006 at 08:37

There's no concensus as to what being Muslim in the Balkans means so everyone, everywhere, is more or less free to decide for themselves which ethnicity they belong to. You can choose Albanian, Bosniak, Gorani, Montenegrin, Serb, Croat, Turk - whatever you want.