Chechens in Turkey (; ) are
Turkish citizens of
Chechen descent and Chechen refugees living in
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. The Chechen diaspora in Turkey dates back to the 19th century when the Russian Empire started ethnically cleansing Caucasians from their homeland, these expulsions would later become known as the
Circassian genocide.
Villages
Chechen villages in Turkey:
[W.E.D. Allen, Paul Muratoff: Caucasian Battlefields — A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828—1921. Battery Press, Nashville 1966; S. 104. ]
Notable Chechen Turks
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Hüseyin Özkan, Turkish judoka
*
Ramazan Şahin,
Russia
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Turkish freestyle
wrestler
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of
Chechen descent
References
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
European diaspora in Turkey
Ethnic groups in Turkey