The Balkan Wars and Nationality Problems

The Balkan Wars are one of the important headstones of both Turkish and the Balkan History. As a result of these wars; besides loosing some of her lands, Ottoman State also encountered the problem of loosing some of her subjects as they were changing nationality. This case which we call as nationality problems came to order in the treaties which were concluded after the wars. After negotiations, subjects were given an option to choose the State, of which they wanted to have the nationality. Some of them chose to stay under Ottoman nationality and migrated to other places in Ottoman State. And the others left the Ottoman lands and nationality. Our study involves nationality problems which Ottoman State encountered after the Balkan Wars and process of resolving the issue.