What is a community? What does it mean to be a part of a community, especially when that community is not in its homeland? These are the main questions that I have been investigating during my research of the Meskhetian Turks and their experiences in Central Asia. In my first post I provided a short […]
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The Exile and Forced Migrations of the Meskhetian Turks
Before I begin, I would just like to say thank you to all the people who read my last post and left great comments. I hope that I have done an adequate job in exciting you to learn more about the history of the Meskhetian Turks and welcome you to this blog post, in which […]
Making Sense of Meskhetian Turk Migrations
You can’t undo a deportation. Jonathan Shapiro For my last three blog posts, I have decided to look at the history of Meskhetian Turks from their deportation in 1944 to the modern day. In this blog post, I am going to do my best to familiarize the reader with the Meskhetian Turks and how forced […]
The Turkish Experience in the Russian Federation
When we talk about migration to the Russian Federation, the main receiving countries that come to mind are those in Central Asia, but rarely do we think about Russia’s southwestern neighbor, Turkey. Towards the end of the Cold War, Turkey improved their relations with the Soviet Union through trade deals, which allowed Turkish companies to […]
Building an Identity in the Post-Soviet Space
In 1991 Kazakhstan became an independent country for the first time in over two hundred years, and set out to create a homeland for Kazakhs all over the world. In order to achieve this feat, the new government would have to hold a census and ensure that Kazakhs were the majority. However, as history in […]