The deportation of Meskhetians - a massive forced eviction in 1944 of Georgian Muslim Muslims of the Meskh subethnic group of Muslim religion from their historical homeland - Samtskhe-Javakheti region ( Georgia ).
Together with Meskh Georgians from Samtskhe-Javakheti to Kazakhstan , other ethnic groups were evicted - Kurds , Turks , Muslim Armenians . Ethnic deportation, which at that time went on en masse throughout the entire Soviet Union , including in the Caucasian republics, was subject to the Lazes related to Georgians, as well as Greeks and Germans . Meskhetian Christians - Orthodox and Catholics - were not expelled. After Georgia declared independence, the deported Meskh population began to gradually return to Georgia "for patriotic reasons."
Ethnonym
The term “Meskhetian Turk” is used in relation to the entire population deported from South Georgia in Russian. For many Georgians, including deported Muslim Georgians, the term “Meskhetian Turk” remains unacceptable, because, as they explain, this term was created artificially in the second half of the 20th century [1] .
At a conference on the 70th anniversary of the deportation of “Meskhetian Turks” in Tbilisi on November 28, one of the repatriates Salim Iskanderov (Kuradze) left the hall in protest that the term “Meskhetian Turk” is used with reference to Georgian-Meskhetians or simply “ Turks. " “The deported Muslim Meskhs are ethnic Georgians, therefore, the term“ migrant Meskhs ”should be used,” he said [2] .
Notes
- ↑ An action was taken in Tbilisi against the term “Meskhetian Turks” . apsny.ge (June 17, 2013). Date of treatment November 22, 2017.
- ↑ Beslan Kmuzov. Meskhetian Turks called on the Georgian leadership to speed up the repatriation process . kavkaz-uzel.eu (November 30, 2014). Date of treatment November 22, 2017.
Links
- Life of Muslim Meskh repatriates at South Ossetian boundary line (Eng.) , Democracy & Freedom Watch (March 11, 2016). Date of treatment November 19, 2017.
- V. Koltsov. Meskhi: A people between the wheels of empires . panorama.ru (September 1, 1990). Date of treatment November 19, 2017.
- Beslan Kmuzov. Meskhetian Turks called on the Georgian leadership to speed up the repatriation process . kavkaz-uzel.eu (November 30, 2014). Date of treatment November 22, 2017.
- Vinogradov A. G. The population of Russia and the USSR from ancient times to the present: Demography . - WP IPGEB. - 366 p.
- Muslim Meskhetians who visited Georgia announced difficulties in repatriation . apsny.ge (November 15, 2017). Date of treatment November 22, 2017.
- A. Khakhanov. Meskhs. (Ethnographic essay) . archive.org . Date of treatment November 19, 2017.
- Nino Narimanishvili, Otar Atskureli. Return from exile . jam-news.net (June 20, 2017). Date of treatment November 22, 2017.