Abstract:

Ahıska Turks are known as the only Turkish community that is still forced to live without citizenship today. Nowadays, in nine countries of the world, the fourth generation is the only people who have been struggling in a striking way to life, and who are still unrecognized by the right to return to their homeland. This people is the extension of a great empire. The Ahıska region, which has remained the homeland of the Ahıska Turks for centuries, in 1828 entered the Russian occupation by separating from the Ottoman. During the period of Stalin's regime, the people of the region were deported to Central Asia, separated from their hometown within two hours because they were Turkish and close to Turkey. Among the people who have been persecuted by Stalin, today only the Ahisk Turks continue their expelled lives and cannot return to their homeland. Even the Ahiskans have been expelled three times after 1944, and are now passing a vital test in nine countries in the world: the United States, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Northern Caucasus, Ukraine and Georgia, facing major physical and spiritual difficulties.