What should also be noted is that the regions of Kars and Ardahan where mostly settled by Armenians but the city of Ahiska and Ahilkelek were of mostly Ahiska Turkish origin.
It makes no sense that the Ottomans would settle or convert people only in this region but leave out stategic points like...
The Ahiska Turkish dialect is more similar to the Azeri language then anyother Turkic language.
(And to a lesser extend the Karakalpak language)
The whole Kypcak origin theory is more in common with the Atabek family (and some symbols in those regions)
Another aspect which is bought about this...
I also dislike the AKP but really i personally want them to win rather then the HDP going into parlament again.
(Also MHP fucked themselves when they denied a Coalition with AKP)
Most say that they are not Turks (which implies of being Turkish).
This is pretty much a name error. (Because no Central Asian Turk claims to not be Turkic)
Sorry but no Ahiska wants to live in those regions......
Ahiska always want to go where other Ahiska are, those places are:
Istanbul/Bursa/Ardahan/Kars/Erzurum/Artvin and some towns in the Ardahan region
Quite nice and close to the true.
But there is something that isnt mentioned which is the Atabek Yurdu of Samstkhe which was the original country of the Ahiska (before being conquered by the Ottomans).
For example many old village names in Posof/Ardahan have Kyptcak names not Oghuz names.
(You...
I dont know why Turkey never cared for us......
We speak Turkish, we are Sunni Muslims, we are Nationalists.
Maybe we have different direct ancestors (being that we come from the Atabeks instead of the beyliks) but that isnt any reason to ignoring us for all this time.
Ahiska is basically South Georgia.
And no Kurds are a tiny minority with only 3000 of the over 600.000 Ahiska population.
The Kurds are not native to the Ahiska/Ardahan region and only came after the republic was formed.
There are many business men in the US who are Ahiska but those are like...
While it was good to stay neutral (this wasnt even Inönüs idea but Atatürks)
It wouldnt have had any bad impact if he would have had opened the border for us.
But no he didnt and 1/4 of my people died.
And even today Turkey doesnt care about us Ahiska one bit.
(Except 3000 Ahiska will be settled...
They didnt manage anything at all in WW2...............
While we Ahiska got deported to Uzbekistan and Siberia Turkey under Inönü didnt even open the border to save us.
I love Atatürk but Inönü was something completely different (just like the CHP today)