CRETAN IMMIGRANTS IN IZMIR-TURGUTLU (HAMIDIYE) VILLAGE

The Muslim Turkish population living in Crete was forced to migrate from the island as a result of nationalist movements and the Greek independence movement that influenced Crete at the end of 19th century. Later, after the separation ofCrete from Ottoman domination, there was still a forced migration process from the island with the “Exchange” agreement of the Cretan Muslims living as minority status. Thus, the Muslim population moved to Anatolia with two major migration waves. In this study, arrival of the the Muslim people to ？zmir as a result of forced migration or forced escape from Crete to Anatolia as a result of the oppression and massacres with the Ottoman-Greek War in 1897 especially in the 19th century and their settlements in Turgutlu (Hamidiye) village, social and cultural values are discussed and necessary evaluations are made. The aim of this study is to examine and put a different point of view about the arrival of the Cretan Muslims to Izmir, the establishment of Turgutlu (Hamidiye) village and the settlement of the people, the number of households, their professions, basic means of living and relations with other social groups of the region, current situation of Turgutlu (Hamidiye) and the transformationof the Cretan immigrants in the historical process within the framework of the historical documents, field works and various researches on the subject. In order to ensure authenticity and integrity, the newspapers and archive documents of the period, as well as the original expressions of the third and fourth generations of Cretan citizens in the region, were use