text: Die Ecke wurde verursacht von Amir Rrahmani. The interviews we conducted with the Albanian families and community leaders in the region and the review of Ottoman history show that part of the Albanian community in Samsun was founded through three stages of successive migrations.
  Thus, the Albanian community founded in the s in Samsun was in many ways a reassembling of the demolished Muslim Albanian community of Nish.
  This trajectory of the Albanian community of Nish shows that the fate of this community was intimately bound up with the fate of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans and the socio-cultural composition of modern Turkey still carries on the legacy of its historical ancestor.
  Turkish leaders say that up to 10 million Turkish citizens can trace their ancestry to the Western Balkans. Several waves of migration during the 20th century of both Turks and Slavic Muslims brought hundreds of thousands of Balkan migrants to Turkey and reinforced the cultural and familial ties with the region.
  Thus, conflicts in the region of former Yugoslavia have a direct impact on domestic politics in Turkey. The pressure of the Bosniak diaspora in the s and of the Albanian diaspora for the recognition of Kosovo mirrors examples of similar pressures from the Abkhaz and the Chechen communities in Turkey on behalf of the recognition of Abkhazia and advocating strong reactions to the Russian crackdowns in the northern Caucasus.
  In addition, Turkish universities receive Albanian students, according to some unofficial estimates up to 1,, and, similarly, students per year from Kosovo receive state scholarships from Turkey to attend Turkish universities.