Ahiska Turks

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Ahiska Turks are a Turkic ethnic group originally from the Meskheti region of Georgia, many of whom were deported across the Soviet Union and now live in widespread diaspora communities.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Ahiska Turks canonical 1
Mesketian Turks 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf deported people
ethnic group
alternativeName Meskhetian Turkish NERFINISHED
Meskhetian Turks NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Georgia NERFINISHED
deportationDestination Central Asia NERFINISHED
Kazakhstan NERFINISHED
Kyrgyzstan NERFINISHED
Uzbekistan NERFINISHED
deportedBy Soviet Union NERFINISHED
deportedUnder Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED
diaspora North America NERFINISHED
Western Europe
post-Soviet states
ethnicGroupIn Azerbaijan NERFINISHED
European Union NERFINISHED
Georgia NERFINISHED
Kazakhstan NERFINISHED
Kyrgyzstan NERFINISHED
Russia NERFINISHED
Turkey NERFINISHED
Ukraine NERFINISHED
United States NERFINISHED
Uzbekistan NERFINISHED
ethnicOrigin Meskheti region NERFINISHED
ethnonym Ahıska Türkleri NERFINISHED
hasCulturalTradition Turkic cuisine
Turkic folk music
historicalCity Akhaltsikhe NERFINISHED
historicalRegion Samtskhe-Javakheti NERFINISHED
language Azerbaijani NERFINISHED
Turkish
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Meskheti NERFINISHED
partOf Turkic world NERFINISHED
recognizedAsMinorityBy Georgia NERFINISHED
Russia NERFINISHED
Ukraine NERFINISHED
religion Hanafi Islam NERFINISHED
Sunni Islam
sharesCulturalTraitsWith Anatolian Turks NERFINISHED
Azerbaijanis NERFINISHED
significantEvent 1944 deportation from Meskheti
subjectOf deportation studies
diaspora studies
victimOf ethnic cleansing
forced migration
writingSystem Cyrillic alphabet NERFINISHED
Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Turkic peoples hasEthnicSubgroup Ahiska Turks
this entity surface form: Mesketian Turks
Turkic peoples hasEthnicSubgroup Ahiska Turks