 Many inhabitants from Karacalar migrated to Western Europe since the 1960s.The reportedly first migrant from the Emirdag district to Belgium, in 1963, was 'Kötü Ahmet', Ahmet Öztürk, originally from Karacalar.In 2000 his son Mustafa Öztürk was elected as a municipal councillor in the Belgian commune of Schaerbeek.