| Summary: | Just before a hundred years ago, the Thrace region was the land of the Turks’ European
dreams and the apple of the Ottoman Empire’s eye with the cities that grow the most military
officers, intellectual downtowns, silver mine beds. Thrace was also the hometown to peaceful
people living under the well-protected shades of the Empire, speaking the Turkish language in
bazaars, where was brought, settled and populated by Turks from Anatolia after every new
conquest. The neighing sounds of Turks’ horses were heard not so long after the beginning of
the common era in this meeting point of the Continental Europe and Minor Asia and the area
became a "Turkish sovereign" with people coming from Anatolia and the North of the Black
Sea. As the variant Turkish population settled diachronically, they naturally have varied dialects
from each other.
The purpose of this study is to discuss the Turkish subdialects of the Thrace region in detail,
which is now to be divided amongst the three countries’ terrains, regarding phonetics. Thus, to
what extent did the region, which had been living under different political regimes in the last
century, affected the lingustic feature of different neighboring relations of the Turks? It will be
tried to be identified.
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