Thousands of Turks and Muslims living in the Meskhetia region were put on wagons just hours after being informed of their forced migration, not even being allowed to pack their belongings.

The ethnic group was ousted from 224 villages of the Meskhetia-Javakhetia region in 1944 on an order of Soviet dictator Stalin. Armenians from other countries were unfairly settled in these ...

Originally from Meskhetia, a region in southwest Georgia, about 100,000 of them were removed from their homeland by Joseph Stalin in 1944 and sent to Central Asia. After ethnic violence broke out ...

Some people -- most of them Meskhetians -- believe that the former deportees and their descendants should be allowed to resettle in Meskhetia, the southern region where they lived until Stalin ...