| LC control no. | sh 85083927 |
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| LC classification | DK673.5.M47 Georgia (Republic) |
| Topical heading | Meskhetians (Turkic people) |
| Variant(s) | Ahıska Türkleri Ahiska Turks Meskhetis turk'ebi Meskhetians Turkish Ahiskans Turkish Meskhetians |
| See also | Ethnology--Asia, Central Ethnology--Georgia (Republic) Turkic peoples |
| Found in | Work cat.: Narushenii︠a︡ prav vynuzhdennykh migrantov ... 1996: p. 5 (Meskhetinskie turki) Rossiĭskiĭ opyt ėtnicheskoĭ diskriminat︠s︡ii : meskhetint︠s︡y ... 1999. Azerbaijani multiculturalism, 2017 page 22 (The Ahiska Turks are one of the peoples of the world who were ousted from their Motherland. Being condemned to suffer as refugees and exciles, a great part of them were forced to move to the remote areas of the Soviet Union and have not been able to return to their Motherland -the Ahiska region of Georgia - up to present. In the period of WWII - in 1944 declaring the Ahiska Turks as "untrustworthy people" the Soviet government committed ruthless ethnic cleansing... and exiled them to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Over 17 million Ahiska Turks lost their lives on their way of exile... The Ahiska Turks' first mass deportation to Azerbaijan took place in the 1950s. Wikipedia, August 31st, 2023: Meskhetian Turks, also referred to as Turkish Meskhetians, Ahiska Turks, and Turkish Ahiskans, (Turkish: Ahıska Türkleri; Georgian: მესხეთის თურქები Meskhetis turk'ebi) are a subgroup of ethnic Turkish people formerly inhabiting the Meskheti region of Georgia, along the border with Turkey. The Turkish presence in Meskheti began with the Turkish military expedition of 1578, although Turkic tribes had settled in the region as early as the eleventh and twelfth centuries. |
| Not found in | Britannica Macro.; Ethnologue |
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