Chechens in Turkey ( ce, Туркойчура нохчий; tr, Türkiye Çeçenleri) are Turkish citizens of Chechen descent and Chechen refugees living in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. The Chechen diaspora in Turkey dates back to the 19th century when the Russian Empire started ethnically cleansing Caucasians from their homeland, these expulsions would later become known as the

Circassian Genocide The Circassian genocide, or Tsitsekun, was the Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion of 80–97% of the Circassian population, around 800,000–1,500,000 people, during and after the Russo-Circassian War ( ...

Villages

Chechen villages in Turkey:W.E.D. Allen, Paul Muratoff: Caucasian Battlefields — A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828—1921. Battery Press, Nashville 1966; S. 104.

Notable Chechen Turks

* Hüseyin Özkan, Turkish judoka *

Ramazan Şahin Ramazan Şahin (born Ramzan Irbaikhanov, russian: Рамзан Ирбайханов, on 8 July 1983) is a Russian- Turkish freestyle wrestler of Chechen descent. He won gold medals at the 2007 World Championships, 2008 European Championships, a ...

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n- Turkish freestyle

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of Chechen descent

References

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European diaspora in Turkey