Meskhetian Turks

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Edited by Seko - 18-May-2006 at 11:07

Originally posted by Bulldog Thank you very much  Seko, I appreciate this. Could anybody please provide some more info about these people's.   Regards

I think so, I'm not sure about the relations with Georgia and Central Asia, but I know Azerbeycan and Turkey have good relations with them.

Do the Ahiska Turks have a flag to represent them selves?

Can you explain the meaning of it, colors, etc?

I found this thow

ahiskan turks and meskhets are not the same thing thats the georgian goverments politicsties to empose there werentany tturks inthe region they were  turkish speaking georgian muslims yes they are true there also were turkish speaking georgians which called meshketians (the name of the region) becouse of that if you can refer ahiskan turks rather than meskeths i will appreciate ahiskan turks are oguz some people say they settled in those land with the seljuk rule in the area

i was not reffering reffering that when the soviet goverment decided to resettle crimean turks ,chechens and karachai turks in their homeland ahiskan turks wanted to resettle to but georgian goverment told them that they have to accept they are not turkish they are georgian they need to change their names to georgian names that was the reason i insist on ahiskan turks rather than meskhetians my grandfather came from ahiska in russian turkish war i am the second generation althought iwas not able to talk with my grandfather my father allways told me that we have to be proud of being ahiskan turk becouse we are honest hardworking people whereever they settled ahiskan turks in short term we become the masters of their economy that was the reason of fergana massacre in 1989 it is allways nice to now another ahiskan turk

actually no becouse i never had chance to know my grandfathers but its not so different becouse its an oguz dialect of turkish

you are lucky i met with ahiskans from turkmenistan and krasnodar they kinda lose their accent to other turkish dialects the name i m using is my last name it is a name of o mountain in ahiska it is called yalbozze in georgian there are some website which are well maintained about our problems so many of our brothers settled in usa now thing look bright for them once i met with a georgian guy he ask me if i m georgian i said no than explained he told me once ahiska produced best grapes in georgia but he said after stalin deport ahiskan turks it never become same  he said earth misses their masters insallah i will visit ahiska one they to see