The eviction of the Turks from Macedonia (1912-). At the beginning of ⅹⅹ c. The Turkish population in Macedonia (according to one statistics) was 22.14% or 499. 304 inhabitants. When the armies of the federal Balkan states occupied Macedonia (1912), it was massively expelled or moved before their occurrence of a large part of the Turkish population. With the Lozan Convention (30. ⅰ 1923) between Greece and Turkey for the mandatory exchange of minorities from the Aegean part of Macedonia, the Turkish population from Western Thrace was forced. Turkey with Yugoslavia signed an agreement (1938) for eviction of the Turkish population from Macedonia and the Kosovo-MetoH region. After the war (1941-1945), the Turks from the NR / SRM continued. FNRJ and Turkey have signed two protocol (5. ⅰ 1850 and 31. ⅶ 1954) and agreement (13. 1956) with an indemnity protocol for expelled Turks. The massive eviction of the Turks from the Pirin part of Macedonia occurred under pressure from the regime of Todor Zhivkov for their Bulgarization. Lit.: Stoyan Acisovski, ethnic changes in Macedonia (1913-1995), Skopje, 2000; Macedonia in international agreements, 1 (1913-1940), Skopje, 2006. M. Min.
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