The last group of Ahiska Turks, who were forced to migrate from the Caucasus during the Soviet era, returned to their homeland Thursday. With President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s instruction and ...

And then, shortly after the millennium, newcomers started arriving. The Ahiska Turks, an ethnic group from disputed land in the former Soviet Union, were granted asylum starting in 2004 ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — On Nov. 15, 1944, 100,000 Ahiska Turks were exiled from their homes in what is now modern day Georgia by the Soviet Union. They were forced into central Asia. In 2004 ...

“The mayor and I being here, we want to show support for our community. We have thousands of Ahiska Turks here now, and they’re Americans now,” Joseph said. Samantha Wildow is a health care ...

Türkiye on Tuesday commemorated the 79th anniversary of the exile of almost 100,000 Ahiska Turks from their homeland in the Caucasus region during the Soviet era. "I commemorate with sadness the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Türkiye is accelerating the process for Ahiska Turks, also known as Meskhetian Turks, to gain Turkish citizenship. Speaking at a gathering ...

Turkey’s foreign minister Thursday praised Kazakhstan for its support to Ahiska Turks, also known as Meskhetian Turks. “We would like to express our gratitude to the state and people of ...

Turkey is also in the process of granting citizenship to 20,000 Ahiska, also known as Meskhetian Turks, Guner said. Ahiska Turks originally came from the Meskheti region of Georgia but were ...

Ahiska Turks from Ukraine are in line to receive Turkish citizenship, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said Tuesday. Turkey has already announced Syrian refugees living in Turkey will get citizenship ...

They came to the United States 17 years ago as refugees, fleeing decades of persecution of Ahiska Turks that began in the 1940s in Stalin’s U.S.S.R. and, in the late 1980s, forced tens of ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday received Ziyatdin Kassanov, the president of the World Union of Ahiska Turks, in the capital Ankara. Fidan met with Kassanov, and secretary-general ...