Hastekkeşin, Damlaİpekbayrak, Ece GünElmacı, KeremŞengüler, UfukHazır, Zeynep Duru2024-01-302024-01-302023https://hdl.handle.net/11693/114100This work is a student project of the Department of History, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University.The History of Turkey course (HIST200) is a requirement for all Bilkent undergraduates. It is designed to encourage students to work in groups on projects concerning any topic of their choice that relates to the history of Turkey. It is designed as an interactive course with an emphasis on research and the objective of investigating events, chronologically short historical periods, as well as historic representations. Students from all departments prepare and present final projects for examination by a committee, with 10 projects chosen to receive awards.Ankara : İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent Üniversitesi İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Tarih Bölümü, 2023.Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-24).From the beginning of the 20th century, most of the population in Western Thrace is composed of Greeks and Turks. In the 1950s, Turks in Western Thrace, who were exempted from the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, were feeling a social pressure on themselves. This pressure, the tense atmosphere, the cases of discrimination and the political discourses of the age, especially the Cyprus Dispute, led to the immigration of some Western Thrace Turks to Türkiye. In this study, the reasons and the consequences of this immigration, the life before immigration and the conditions of the period that might have affected it, the complete process of immigration and its aftermath were researched. 3 stories of immigration from Western Thrace to Balıkesir were examined and 3 distinct witnesses who immigrated in different time periods were interviewed during the research. The objective of this research, is to provide a voice to these three families, and while preventing their stories to get lost in the grand scheme of correlated events, is also to study the immigration in different contexts and to ensure the immigration is better understood with evaluations using different perspectives.24 pages.TurkishCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlikeBatı TrakyaGöçKıbrıs sorunuTürkiye-Yunanistan ilişkileriWestern ThraceImmigrationCyprus disputeTurkey-Greece relationsStudent ProjectSPB4568