The Cultural and Political Claims of the Caucasian Minorities in

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3824
dc.contributor.author	Grassi Fabio L.
dc.title	The Cultural and Political Claims of the Caucasian Minorities in Turkey
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	More than in the previous years, in 2019 the organisations and the social media groups of the Turkish citizens who are fully or partly descendants of Caucasian refugees looked active not only around 21 May, their “genocide commemoration” day, but also around 2 May, remembering the 2 May 1923, when the Kemalist government deported Eastwards many Circassian villages located in Western Anatolia. In sum, we are witnessing that now the “Circassians of Turkey” (a term which generally includes North-Eastern Caucasians like Chechens and South-Eastern Caucasians like Abkhazians) are struggling not only for a worldwide recognition of the “Circassian genocide”, but also for an open debate on what has meant and means being “Circassian” in the Republic. This paper tries to draw an updated picture of what is up within Circassian intelligencija and what Caucasians of Turkish nationality are aiming at.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-10-22
dc.dateAccepted	2020-05-04
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-03-23
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-454-7/the-cultural-and-political-claims-of-the-caucasian/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-453-0/011
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-454-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-453-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Abkhazians
dc.subject	Abkhazians
dc.subject	Circassians
dc.subject	Circassians
dc.subject	Identity
dc.subject	Identity
dc.subject	Political Debate
dc.subject	Political Debate
dc.subject	Turkey
dc.subject	Turkey

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The Cultural and Political Claims of the Caucasian Minorities in Turkey

Fabio L. Grassi Sapienza Università di Roma, Italia

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More than in the previous years, in 2019 the organisations and the social media groups of the Turkish citizens who are fully or partly descendants of Caucasian refugees looked active not only around 21 May, their “genocide commemoration” day, but also around 2 May, remembering the 2 May 1923, when the Kemalist government deported Eastwards many Circassian villages located in Western Anatolia. In sum, we are witnessing that now the “Circassians of Turkey” (a term which generally includes North-Eastern Caucasians like Chechens and South-Eastern Caucasians like Abkhazians) are struggling not only for a worldwide recognition of the “Circassian genocide”, but also for an open debate on what has meant and means being “Circassian” in the Republic. This paper tries to draw an updated picture of what is up within Circassian intelligencija and what Caucasians of Turkish nationality are aiming at.

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Oct. 22, 2020

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May 4, 2020

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March 23, 2020

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978-88-6969-454-7

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Keywords: Political Debate • Circassians • Turkey • Abkhazians • Identity

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