HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF FORCED MASS MIGRATION DUE TO SECURITY REASONS

During current century, mass migrations that are occurred due to human caused disasters such as wars, arm conflicts, rapidly impacted on physical and social environments in both places where migration occur from and to and continue to impact. Due to many discrepancies of wars that have started at end of the 20th century and are still continuing than previous ones has caused to use arm conflict term instead of wars. Assaults are increased to “universal cultural values”, which have sustained irreversible damages because of both conflict and forced migration. When space is considered as “an environment that makes culture tangible”, it must be recognized that cultural values are been meaningful when they are preserved along with their living users. In the wake of civil wars that started in Syria on April 2011, more than 3 million Syrian have to migrate several countries due to security reason. In 2016, number of the migrant receiving countries swiftly has increased and dispersion of migrated community accelerate disappearance of “common storage/collective memory”. This study aims to examine factors that threat historical space during fulminant immigration due to security reason in Turkey and immediate vicinity in the contest of “migration and preserving cultural heritage”.