Chechens in Turkey

Chechen Turks
Total population
	~100,000 (2009)
Languages
	Turkish, Chechen, Russian
Religion
	Sunni Islam

Mahmud Shevket Pasha

Şahin Bey

Mümtaz Çeçen

Kids of the Chechen refugee camp in Fenerbahçe, İstanbul. (2011)

Chechens in Turkey (Chechen: Туркойчура нохчий, Turkish: Türkiye Çeçenleri) are Turkish citizens of Chechen descent and Chechen refugees living in Turkey. 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.

Villages[]

Chechen villages in Turkey:^[2]

Name	Locally name	Province
Ağaçlı	Ağaçlı	Adana
Dikilitaş	Dikilitaş	Adana
	Karalık	Yozgat
	Kesikköprü	Yozgat
	Aşağıborandere / Şeşen Jambotey	Kayseri
	Aydınalan	Kars
	Yenigazi	Kars
	Altınyayla	Kahramanmaraş
	Çardak
	Sisne
Gücüksu	Gücüksu / Behliöyl
	Bağiçi	Muş
Bozkurt	Bozkurt
Çöğürlü	Çöğürlü
	Kıyıbaşı / Arıncık
	Serinova
	Tepeköy
	Ulusırt
	Alaçayır	Sivas
	Canabdal
	Demirköprü
	Kahvepınar
	Kazancık
	Yukarıhüyük
Çınardere	Çınardere	Çanakkale

Notable Chechen Turks[]

References[]

Media related to Chechen people in Turkey at Wikimedia Commons

^ Kristiina Markkanen: Chechen refugee came to Finland via Baku and Istanbul
^ 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. ISBN 0-89839-296-9

[1] Kristiina Markkanen: Chechen refugee came to Finland via Baku and Istanbul

[2] 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. ISBN 0-89839-296-9

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Total population
~100,000 (2009)^[1]
Languages
Turkish, Chechen, Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam