The immigration from Balkans through Anatolia, the settlement politics of Ottoman and immigrant's settlement areas

In this thesis work, continuous immigration from the Balkans through Anatolia in 19th and 20th century, problems aroused with this migrations, preventional work and solutions of Ottoman Empire during this period is described. Lastly, separation of people because of ?Great Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey?, new settlement places for immigrants and pursued politics is investigated. Starting with the definition of immigration, firstly, general evaluation of exchange of populations between 1768 ? 1922 is made; political and economical immigrations are also mentioned. Beside the interior movement of the populations and reasons behind, migrations taken place because of foreign countries are summarized and settlement politics of Ottoman within different eras are investigated. Along with this housing politics, many immigration committees have been founded and objectives, studies of the committees are also explained in this work. Immigrants? housing period is described as temporary and continuous settlement. In temporary settlement part, housing regions, temporary house, health and territory aids are explained. Afterwards, subjects that had paid attention in continuous settlement, setted up villages, house plan samples and typologies are investigated. After summarizing demographic, economical, social effects of immigrations and changes in the distribution of Turkish bourgeois, village ? city populations between years of 1768-1922, exchange period (1923) is started to be explained. After immigration of Turks to Anatolia with exchange of populations, they have lived in simple and temporary residences like called ?hug?. Afterwards, along with continuous settlement and its problems, model villages and economical houses are constructed. In final part of the thesis, these continuous residences are investigated with their settlement areas, plans, typologies and construction techniques. Keywords: Immigration, Great Population Exchange, Settlement, Model Villages, Settlement Politics of Ottoman.