82 years after the Ahiska Turks' deportation, a TRNC association calls for their right to return

On the night of 14 November 1944, Soviet forces deported about 100,000 Ahiska Turks from their homeland. Ahead of the 82nd anniversary, Hakan Uygun, head of the Ahiska Turks Cultural and Solidarity Association of the TRNC, issued a message.

Uygun said the deportation remains a deep wound that 82 years have not erased, and he remembered those who died in exile. He said the Ahiska Turks, now scattered across many parts of the world, demand the right to return to their homeland, and thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his support of the cause.