RFE/RL has reported that some of yesterday’s violence in Kyrgyzstan, which claimed the lives of at least three people, was ethnically motivated. Amid speculation that Russians were being ...

In the past year, just more than 5,000 Meskhetian Turks have resettled in the United States as refugees, and 4,400 have approval to immigrate, according to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

Most of the Meskhetian Turks whom Turkey is taking in are fleeing a conflict zone, primarily Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, towns in the Donbas controlled by pro-Russian separatists in 2014 but which have ...

Even by the turbulent standards of the former Soviet Union, the Meskhetian Turks' story is a tragic one. Twice deported in the past 60 years, they are now scattered across the length and breadth of ...

Being Muslims, identifying for centuries as ethnic Turks, as well as speaking Turkish has made Turkey linger large in Meskhetian consciousness, a sentiment that’s been accentuated by the rise ...

Meskhetian Turks, also known as Ahiska Turks, are enjoying Muslim holy month of Ramadan in eastern Turkey. Having difficulty in practicing their religion in non-Muslim countries for years, ...

ISTANBUL, Türkiye. The deportation of Meskhetian Turks is not only a painful event for the local community but a very "tragic" incident in Turkish history, according to a Turkish historian.

Under the Soviet regime, the Meskhetians -- a people of some 300,000 whose origins are in dispute -- suffered persecutions and mass deportations. More than half a century after they were uprooted ...

The visit of Georgian state minister for conflicts resolution Georgy Khaindrava to Ankara has drawn to an end. During the visit Khaindrava discussed the issue of returning Meskhetian Turks who ...

KRASNODAR, Russia — Thousands of Muslims from a small ethnic group known as the Meskhetian Turks are fleeing this Black Sea region for the United States. The exodus is caused by what human ...

Over 300 Meskhetian Turks from the Turkish-speaking minority in eastern Ukraine have arrived in eastern Turkey's Erzincan province where they will live under the country's recently-adopted asylum ...