3 Turk groups hardly ever spoken about.

Ahiska Turks: http://www.ozturkler.com/data_english/0008/0008_02.htm

Endangered Turks:

Chulym Turks: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~andreif/project/Chulym%20Turkic% 20language.htm

Karay Turks: http://www3.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~djn/karaim/kCDlang.htm

just an info the soldier who came back from war was in the world war 2 he fought for soviet union against germans and soviets killed his parents and deport rest of his family yes they gave him a medallion for saving russians in stalingrad and send him to siberia as well the biggest deportation was in second world war they deported all ahiskan turks to either central asia or siberia the last deportation was in 1989 the ahiskan turk who lived in fergana walley in ozbekistan massacred by their own brothers and has to flea either krgyz republik or azerbaijan

Salam everyone. Good to read all of your posts, I'm glad I discovered the forum.  Going back to the resettlement program that US Department of State initiated for Ahiska Turks, which yalbuzdag mentions. I'm working with the community here, in Pennsylvania since 2004. I'm an Ahiska Turk as well, my greetings to the other two here - we share the same history, a very unique one. The history of three, for some more, migrations in one century, the cause being our ethnic identity.

What Ahiskans went through while in Krasnodar, Russia is basically neglect, violations of basic human rights and an overt discrimination against the whole community, often with bursts of violence. Ahiskans are getting support from the US government at this point, and the community is spread all over the states, it's growing and I'm sure pretty soon they'll be doing, and some already are, very well in the new country.  There are around 12000 Ahiskans already here, but it's a handful in comparison to the whole community.

What upsets me the most about the current state of things with our people is that we're now spread all over the world, probably more than ever. Family ties and values are one of the most important aspects of our culture, and nevertheless, besides living all over the US, Turkey and various regions in Russia, our people are also in Uzbekistan, Kazahstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Latvia, Ukraine.. who knows where else. Since the nature of my work is actually within the Ahiskan community, I get a lot of information on that, as you see. Also, now Georgia comes to the play with the Georgian government trying to get to EU and fulfilling the obligations to repatriate us in Georgia. Now the question is how many of Ahiska Turks will actually move back to the land of our ancestors? It's hard to predict what is going to happen next, but more and more I see the tendency to be settling in Turkey � of course, many are trying to get their families to here, but the family reunification program in the States is still very limited. However, supporting Ahiskans coming to Turkey with administrative support through local Dernegs, there is really no social program in place in the country to accept large numbers of Ahiskans. I know that community in Turkey is trying to advocate in front of the Turkish government for improved social infrastructure to support the new comers.. which might be a different topic, and I apologize if I went off the topic here.. Any feedback is appreciated!