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Nonetheless, the legacy of the Turkish language is still apparent and has influenced many words and vocabulary in Algeria. An estimated 634 Turkish words are still used in Algeria today. [26] Therefore, in Algerian Arabic it is possible for a single sentence to include an Arabic subject, a French verb, and for the predicate to be in Berber or ...
Meskhetian Turks in Karabük, Turkey. Meskhetian Turks, also referred to as Turkish Meskhetians, [14] [15] [16] Ahiska Turks, and Turkish Ahiskans, [17] (Turkish: Ahıska Türkleri; [18] [19] Georgian: მესხეთის თურქები Meskhetis turk'ebi) are a subgroup of ethnic Turkish people formerly inhabiting the Meskheti region of Georgia, along the border with Turkey.
Turkish nationalists were outraged at the treaty, contributing to the outbreak the Turkish War of Independence; the Turkish success in this conflict rendered Sèvres obsolete. [4] [3] In 1920 Russia's Red Army had invaded Azerbaijan and Armenia, followed by the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921 which ended the independence of Georgia. The ...
The Meskhetian Turkish population in the USSR was published for the first in the 1970 census. However, by this point, the Turkish minority in Georgia had already diminished to several hundred due to the forced deportation of 1944. [41] There were 853 Turks in Georgia in 1970, [42] 917 in 1979, [43] and 1,375 in 1989. [44] *Post-USSR:
Other Turkish groups include the Rumelian Turks (also referred to as Balkan Turks) historically located in the Balkans; [82] [111] Turkish Cypriots on the island of Cyprus, Meskhetian Turks originally based in Meskheti, Georgia; [112] and ethnic Turkish people across the Middle East, [82] where they are also called Turkmen or Turkoman in the ...
In 2013, a Turkish nationalist map published had included the territory of Adjara into Turkish territory, which has caused friction and hostility between Georgia and Turkey. [6] The issue has been largely downplayed, however in 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech mentioning Georgian city Batumi, causing friction to ...
Therefore, the Turkish diaspora is not only formed by people with roots from mainland Anatolia and Eastern Thrace (i.e. the modern Turkish borders); rather, it is also formed of Turkish communities which have also left traditional areas of Turkish settlements in the Balkans (such as Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania, etc.), the island ...
The Georgian diaspora, or the dispersion of Georgian people outside of Georgia, began to take shape during various historical periods. However, a significant wave of emigration occurred during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly during times of political upheaval, such as the Russian Empire's expansion into the Caucasus region and the ...