There has been a reaction towards Mehmet Kasım Fırat, the President of the Şeyh Said and Companions Association, who referred to the the Balkans and Caucasus-origin people living in Turkey as "the ...
May 21, the Circassian Day of Mourning… The Circassians, an indigenous people of the Caucasus region, resisted the invasion attempts of Tsarist Russia for nearly 300 years. On May 21, 1864, Tsarist ...
On 21 May each year, Circassians around the world honor their ancestors who perished in the course of the Russian Empire's war of conquest against them. The 101-year struggle culminated in the mass ...
As of November 2024, in the ongoing Russian–Ukrainian war, approximately 200 people from Kabardino-Balkaria, 150 from Karachay-Cherkessia, and 200 from the Republic of Adygea, along with about 250 ...