Abstract
In this paper I try to present the perceptions of a process that marked not only the evolution of therelations between two countries (Romania and Turkey) but also determined some important socialchanges in the Turkish-Tatar community from Dobrogea, Romanian province known as Dobrudja inthe Turkish historiography. In order to obtain an accurate image we used in our research documentsfrom Romanian and Turkish archives, Romanian press, Turkish press and the press of Turkish-Tatarcommunity from Dobrogea. In our analysis we consider Dobrogea, the main region of Romania whereTurks and Tatars leave, a “contact zone”, a term used by Mary Louise Pratt (1992: 4) for “social spaceswhere disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other”. We also consider the emigration fromDobrogea to Turkey in the interwar as part of “balkanlaşma göçleri” (Balkanization migration), a termused by Turkish researcher İlhan Tekeli to designate the emigration from the ex-Ottoman territoiresin the Balkans to Anatolia (or more specifically within the new borders of Ottoman Empire/TurkishRepublic). Tekeli (2013: 44-45) argues that “Balkanization migration” has a direct connection with theprocess of formation of the national states in the Balkans.
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