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Turkish and Muslim groups' immigration to Anatolia started after the Ottoman State had begun to lose territories and continued after the foundation of Turkish Republic. Eskişehir, a central Anatolian city, is one of the locations where vast groups of these immigrants reside. The demographic structure of the city was established by the settlement of Balkan, Tatar and Caucasian immigrants in the area. This article is concerned with perception of immigration in Eskişehir, whether or not being largely composed of immigrants plays a determining role in general and local elections, and how political parties and migrant solidarity networks evaluate each other “in the context of political representation.” The views used in the article were achieved by means of 10 indepth interviews with semi-structured forms made in April 2013. While belonging to migration solidarity networks is counted as a social capital, migration's itself also behaves as if a catalyzer in climbing the political career ladders.

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