meskhetian turks造句

• Another 70, 000 Meskhetian Turks from other parts of Uzbekistan soon followed the first wave of migrants and settled mainly in Azerbaijan and Russia.
• The Meskhetian Turks, also a Sunni Hanafi group, are the former inhabitants of the Meskheti region of Georgia, along the border with Turkey.
• Soviet authorities issued an official ruling that 17, 000 Meskhetian Turks, virtually the entire Turkish population in the Ferghana Valley, be transported to Russia.
• Thus, large settlements of Meskhetian Turks were formed in Kazakhstan and they were not permitted by the Georgian government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia to return to their homeland.
• Nationalistic policies at the time encouraged the slogan : " Georgia for Georgians " and that the Meskhetian Turks should be sent to Turkey " where they belong ".
• In the late 1970s, the Stavropol and Krasnodar authorities visited various regions of Uzbekistan to invite and recruit Meskhetian Turks to work in agriculture enterprises in southern Russia.
• However, Turks who wish to return to Georgia are required to change their names from Georgian, the vast majority of the Meskhetian Turks have rejected these conditions.
• Due to the Soviet Union s official policy of discouraging religion and promoting atheism, the majority of Meskhetian Turks, like Bosnian Muslims, are not strictly observant Muslims.