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Settling down of Turks in Kosovo and Metohia began several years after the Kosovo Battle. The greatest number of their ethnic community members remained in the imperial town of Prizren where they still are. Their presence in Prizren was mentioned for the first time as late as 1455. Since their arrival their majority in Prizren has been living together with the resident population, which was mainly Serbian, as we all know. After the Ottoman Empire departed from our territories in Kosovo and Metohia a considerable number of Turks remained. According to some sources at least 220,000 people in Kosovo and Metohija were speaking Turkish and according to some statements even 400,000 people were using that language. Turkish ethnic community had a particularly interesting position. In that period Turks were not only the loyal citizens of the Kingdom but were also privileged in various ways. Especially craftsmen, the majority of them known as Turks, were exempted by a royal decree from paying all kinds of taxes and other obligations to the state. Therefore, the loyalty of Turks in the Kingdom has generally never been questioned. The problems that their ethnic community had been faced with reached their culmination only in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and particularly at present owing to escalation of terrorism and separatism. After World War II there were 100,000 Turks in Kosovo and Metohia. Some of them were assimilated into the Albanian community in various ways, due to all possible pressures put on them. A greater part of the Turkish population moved for good to their country of origin aware of the fact that besides Albanian nationalists and chauvinists there would be no chance to remain. Realizing their mistakes the communist authorities of that time by a decree opened schools with instruction in Turkish in Kosovo-Metohia wherever Turks were found. Gradually the elementary rights of Turks and of other

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Position of the Turkish national community in Kosovo-Metohia since Rambouillet and Paris talks, and KFOR and UNMIK arrival in that South Serbia's region