Book club held - Alahimanet Bosno - Migracija Bosnjaka na Teritoriju Osmanskog Carstva

The Book Club organized by Balkan Youth School 2021 to discuss the esteemed Turkish Historian Prof. Dr. Tufan Gündüz`s valuable work, Alahimanet Bosno - Migracija Bosnjaka na Teritoriju Osmanskog Carstva published by the Yeditepe Publishing House in Turkish for the first time in 2012 (fourth edition in 2021) and in Bosnian in 2016, was conducted under the leadership of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aliye Fatma Mataracı, Dean of Faculty of Law at Internationsl University of Sarajevo. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aliye Fatma Mataracı is a Historian by PhD focusing on the Late Ottoman Empire in general and on Bosnia and Herzegovina in particular with her current research.

During the session, Dr. Mataraci highlighted the main points of Tufan Gündüz`s valuable work and combined them with her ongoing research on population censuses conducted during the Austria-Hungarian rule over Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878-1918). Her lecture set the ground for the participants of the Balkan Youth School to share their valuable comments and inputs. Both Gündüz`s book Alahimanet Bosno and Mataraci`s research outputs, despite the differences in the archival sources consulted; the former work basing its arguments on analysis of verbal means of communication such as petitions, letters, reports and newspapers and the latter basing its arguments on the published results of the population censuses conducted in 1879, 1885, 1895 and 1910, point to the complicated nature of migration and immigration during the period. Both of the researches contribute to the literature by showing that the scale of immigration to the Ottoman Lands from Bosnia and Herzegovina was not as massive as assumed.

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The Balkan Youth School is an educational platform in the humanities, social and religious sciences. The study program is organized through modules, providing basic knowledge of history, human rights, international relations, political theories and issues, socio-political and religious issues, Ottoman history, arts and architecture, genocide studies, leadership and political thought.

The project is being implemented by the Balkan Studies Center of the International University of Sarajevo (IUS) and supported by The Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB).