EFFECTS OF MIGRATIONS ON INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND MIGRATION POLICIES IN THE OTTOMAN PERIOD

The present study aims to provide an explanation for the migration policies, and the institutionalization efforts shaped in parallel with the mass migrations in the Ottoman State, and, in this context, shed light on the accumulation of pre-Republican period. From this perspective, the study prepared by the method of literature review indicates that the huge mass migrations experienced recently are not a new phenomenon in fact, and the organization and policies specific to migration and settlement put into practice firstly in the Ottoman State. Some of the study results can be expressed such that the failure of existing regulations at responding to the needs because of the mass migrations during the disintegration period of Ottoman State entailed the determination of migration policy at the central level. On the other side, the intensification of mass migration flows eliminated the need for liberal migration policies; a more homogenous population policy started to be pursued after the cosmopolitan population policy was left. Moreover, the migration and settlement policies had a critical role in the establishment of modern state by the institution of central authority. In this context, the mass migrations paved the way for significant consequences affecting the Republican period in political, economic and social terms