Türkiye will continue to provide all possible support of the Turks Ahhysk scattered in different countries of the world of 500 thousand people to maintain their unity and identity and convey them to the next generations.
About this, the Foreign Minister of Turkey Hakan Fidan wrote on the social network X on the occasion of the anniversary of the deportation of the Turks Akhisk.
Fidan recalled that on November 14, 1944, about 100 thousand Turks Ahhysk were expelled from historical lands in modern Georgia and wished the souls of the dead from the Almighty the rest of the souls during exile.
Türkiye shares the pain of all the Turks Akhysk, expelled from his native lands, the head of the diplomatic mission wrote. “We most decisively support the successful completion of the process of returning the Turks Akhysk to their native lands. We constantly keep the situation with the situation with the Akhysk Turks under the international venues, especially in the Council of Europe, and during contacts with the authorities of Georgia,” follows from Publications.
Fidan attracted attention to the fact that Turkish authorities implement projects to meet the needs of the Turks Akhysk families in Georgia and ensure their economic survival in the regions of residence.
Also, the Turks Akhysk use scholarship programs at Turkey universities, said Hakan Fidan. “We provided exclusive citizenship and long-term residence permit to many Turks Ahysk. We did not leave some Turks Ahhysk, who were in a difficult situation since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, helped to get to Turkey,” the publication says.
80 years has passed since the start of the deportation of Turks Ahhysk from historical lands in modern Georgia.
The deportation of the Turks Akhysk to Central Asia was carried out by order of Stalin of November 14, 1944.
Despite the past decades, the Ahhysk Turks cannot erase the horrors of deportation from memory.
Akhisk region on the border of Georgia with Turkey was transferred to Russia under an agreement signed after the Russo-Turkish war of 1828-1829, and attached to Georgia, which after the First World War remained within the Soviet Union.
This period was the beginning of suffering for the Ahist Turks, as well as all Turkic and Muslim communities in the USSR.
, by order of Stalin, thousands of Turks Akhysk were loaded into the railway wagons for livestock, which were called “Death Train”.
Most of the 90-117 thousand Turks Ahysk, sent to the internal regions of the Soviet Union, died on the way from hunger and disease.
The Turks Akhisk, settled in different regions, for years did not have the opportunity to contact each other and became the only Caucasian people among those expelled in 1944, which could not return to their homeland.