Abkhazia
Abkhaz activist says she was harassed by ‘Georgian mafia’ ahead of UN forum
Elçin Adzinba has additionally said that she became the victim of a cyberattack after delivering her remarks.
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Abkhazia
Foreboding and fracture for Turkey’s North Caucasus diaspora
Turkey’s North Caucasian diaspora has long occupied an uneasy position between Ankara and Moscow, but after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Erdogan’s re-election, tensions within the community and its representative organisations are coming to the fore. This year’s commemoration of the Circassian Genocide on 21 May stood out: instead of primarily gathering in Istanbul, the bulk of the commemoration took place in Ankara at Anıtpark — a park built in the shadow of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s mausol
Circassian Diaspora
Turkey’s largest North Caucasian organisation to take anti-Kremlin turn?
Turkey’s largest North Caucasian organisation, KAFFED, might be poised for a possible anti-Kremlin shift in light of a change in leadership that promises to shake up the organisation’s role in contemporary Turkey. Hundreds of North Caucasian flags dotted the streets of Istanbul on 21 May, just as they have on every Circassian Day of Mourning for the past two decades. In a sea of thousands of demonstrators commemorating the Circassian Genocide, you could see the green and gold of the Circassi
