MIGRATIONS  PRIOR TO 1920
•. Local Records Show: Approximately 80,000 out of the 120,000 Turks who moved to the United States from the Ottoman Empire in search of a better life between 1820 and 1920 came from Harput in Turkey's southeastern province of Elazig.
• . Escape from war thorn Turkey during 1914-1920        * Farmers and Unskilled Workers                                       - Their only desire return to Turkey ONEDAY                   - No knowledge on American society values
•      and American political life                                                 - Poor language and integration                                        - Near zero contribution to US Society                               * Social Org  (Türk Hars Birliği, 1933)