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As a Balkan immigrant' grandson, I must say that we have experienced this sociological situation for generations. My ancestors were exiled from homelands and we took refuge in Anatolia, not just because we are Muslims, but because we are Turks.You should care what they are thinking about you. They don't make a distinction between Turks and Muslims. To Europe, they are not mutually exclusive. To be a Turk is to be a Muslim, despite whatever protestation you want to make to the contrary. They don't care.
(However, there are some exceptions, such as the Turkish-Greek population exchange. In accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne, millions of people mutually changed their homeland. During this population change, also some Christian Turks were brought to Greece, on the other hand, while some Muslim Greeks thousands more people from other nations were brought to Anatolia.)
Ultimately, the identity ideology and racism getting stronger today in Europe, actually was the main factor that led to the dissolution of the Balkan geography. Today again, the demonization of Turkish identity is the strongest dynamic of Islamophobia in Europe.