An important consequence of the Balkan Wars was also the mass expulsion of Muslims ( known as '' muhacirs '' ) from the Balkans . Beginning in the mid-19th century , hundreds of thousands of Muslims , including Turks , Circassians , and Chechens , were forcibly expelled and others voluntarily migrated from the Caucasus and the Balkans ( Rumelia ) as a result of the Russo-Turkish wars , the Circassian genocide and the conflicts in the Balkans . Muslim society in the empire was incensed by this flood of refugees . A journal published in Constantinople expressed the mood of the times : " Let this be a warning ... O Muslims , do n't get comfortable ! Do not let your blood cool before taking revenge " . As many as 850,000 of these refugees were settled in areas where the Armenians resided . The '' muhacirs '' resented the status of their relatively well-off neighbors and , as historian Taner Akçam and others have noted , some of them came to play a pivotal role in the killings of the Armenians and the confiscation of their properties during the genocide
Circassian genocide
Circassian genocide
Armenian Genocide