True, but I think we can best describe it as "4.000.000 people with (partial) Bosnak descent". Most people are already mixed and that many people would mean that the Bosnian language would still be alive in Turkey.
It is.
This is one report about bosnian viliage in Turkey, they arrivede from across all over the Bosnia: Sarajevo, Krajina region, Herzegiovina.
to bad it doesn thave english subs.
There is one interesting short documentary about the bosnian villiage on Albanian coast. They set sail for Istanbul after collapse of the Empire, but they got in the storm or some shit like that, it wasnt really state of the art ship... and they lost curs, and landed on the coast ALbania thinking its now Turkey. Mostgly poor ppl, eveything they had they gave for ther voyage. So they decided to stay there. Then Enver Hoca came to power one of the fucked up communiist diktators. He and Tito didnt get along, let say. So speaking on serbian/croatian/bosnian lenguege was forbidden. And, he was not faund of islam, or religion in general to put it mindly. And they somehow endured, learning secretly our lenguge to their children and they to their and staying religius.
I mean, everyone in Europe speaks about Armenian Genocide, but much greater tradegy on the much larger area was heppening to muslims in Greater Balkans and there is hardly a mention to it. I mean reading just Tostoys diary from its tour to the region in those times would make yuo sick.
If it wasn’t for us they would have been just an another group of people under Greek, Italian and Serbian rule... Ask them what happened to the Christian Albanians in Epirus or Southern Italy which are all assimilated now.
Under the Ottomans they managed to conquer lands that have never been theirs before. Under the Ottomans dozens of Albanians managed to take high places in the Empire- Grand Viziers and Pashas included. Ask them which country helped them and gave them a refuge when their asses were kicked and opressed around Yugoslavia. Of course we didn’t conquer them with flowers but still...
This is why Bosniaks are real bros for which every Turk must be ready to fight and die.
I mean, muslim from Balkans only havent been a Sultan. I think more then 1/3 of grand vezeirs were from the Balkans (manly Bosnia, Albania ). The local govorment was made up of local ppl in Bosnia. Founder of Sarajevo and first governer was from mix turkish-bosniak marriage.