Forced Relocation of Caucasian Turks to Kazakhstan

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In this article, you can get information about the tragic fate of Meskhetian Turks, which survived the persecution, both from the Russian Empire and Soviet power.Also, it will prove evidence of obstructing the solution of the national issue by post-Soviet Georgia against the forcibly displaced Turks in 1944 to Kazakhstan.In the fate of each people, its history occupies an important place.The share of the Turkish people, which is part of the ethnic groups of Turkish origin, has suffered a lot of undeserved trials.In the Soviet era, official politics, the so-called "national structure", was a mess about the Meskhetian Muslims: the government at certain periods attributed them to Georgians, but in most cases -they were viewed as "Turks" or "Azerbaijanis".In 1944, in special documents on the resettlement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, mainly the Meskhetian Turks were recorded as "Turks", and a small ethnic group -as "Azerbaijanis".