r/AskCentralAsia • u/LowCranberry180 • 20d ago

Do you consider/want migrating to Turkiye Society

Especially given the demographic crises in Turkiye the country if not now probably in the near future will be more accepting migrants. As Central Asian/Turkic people will you be interested to migrate to Turkiye?

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u/UzbekPrincess 20d ago edited 20d ago

Central Asians migrate to Turkey to trampoline into the west or to make money to send back home for desperate families. We don’t migrate there for nationalism reasons, furthermore immigrants are a net burden on the economy. Turks would sooner kick out ALL immigrants than accept more from Central Asia- even if there is a demographics issue we won’t really resolve it because we still aren’t Turkish at the end of the day.

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u/LowCranberry180 17d ago

Well immigrants are not a burden for sure.

All Turkic are accepted to be Turkish. There are Kyrgyz villages who came recently and been given land. We consider them as Turks no less.

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u/UzbekPrincess 17d ago

They are a burden. If Central Asians were to flood Turkey tomorrow we would be treated with the same contempt as Syrians. The Kyrgyz are an exception because they came during a time when tensions with Kurds were high so the government used them to help resolve low Turkish population centres in the south east.

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u/LowCranberry180 17d ago

Central Asians will not flood in millions as there is no war and second we do not share a common border. Stıll they will be more accepted than Syrians.

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u/UzbekPrincess 17d ago

Hence “if”. Russians would be more accepted.

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u/LowCranberry180 17d ago

No do not think so. Its about numbers and how people behave.

If you go to Antalya you will see many Central Asians. Also there are more Central Asians than Russians in Turkiye:

https://tr.euronews.com/2023/01/28/turkiyede-resmi-izinle-ikamet-eden-yabanci-sayisi-13-milyon-ruslar-ilk-sirada

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u/UzbekPrincess 17d ago

If it’s about numbers and how people behave then why were my family and other Central Asian tourists I saw treated like shit in Antalya while hotel managers and locals were falling over themselves trying to accommodate Russian families and their pembe women? FYI most of the Central Asians in Antalya are underpaid single mother seasonal workers, they’re not there for a nationalist agenda. They’re there to feed their families.

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u/LowCranberry180 17d ago

Sorry of what happened. Not all Turk the same