Muhacir or Muhajir ( from ) is a term used to refer to an estimated 10 million Ottoman Muslim citizens , and their descendants born after the onset of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire , ( including Albanians , Bosniaks , Greeks , Circassians , Crimean Tatars , Pomaks and Serbs ) who emigrated to Thrace and Anatolia from the late 18th century until the end of the 20th century , to escape ongoing ethnic cleansing and persecution ( The biggest single population affected , the Circassian Genocide which had 90-95 % of the natives from the region ethnically cleansed and deported to Anatolia . ) in their homelands . Today , between a third and a quarter of Turkey 's population of almost 80 million have ancestry from among these Muhacirs
Circassian Genocide
Circassian genocide
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