Peoples of the Caucasus in Turkey

Various people of the Caucasus or Caucasian peoples live in Turkey today. They include:

Immigrants from North Caucasus due to the Caucasian War of the 19th century:

Autochthonous people of Transcaucasia:

Caucasian refugees

The Ottoman and Russian empires fought at least 17 wars between 1568 and 1917. The Ottomans lost vast and often solidly Turkish and Muslim territories, spanning from the Crimea to Circassia, to the Russians. The Russians killed many inhabitants of these Ottoman lands and expelled the rest to Turkey. So many Turks descend from refugees from Russia that the adage in Turkey is: "If you scratch a Turk, you find a Circassian persecuted by Russians underneath."[2]

See also

  • Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey, Peter Alford Andrews, Wiesbaden, 1989; ISBN 3-89500-297-6
  • Kafkas Ekipleri Başkan Koçal’ı Ziyaret Ettiler (in Turkish)

References

  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2012-09-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Turkey Fears Russia Too Much to Intervene in Syria
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