The Adygeyan parliament today passed a resolution sent to Dmitry Medvedev as well both houses of the federal parliament asking for help in resettling Syrian Circassians to Russia. A group of 115 members of the Circassian diaspora in Syria sent a letter to Russian officials on Monday asking to be repatriated to their original homeland in the North Caucasus because of the danger and instability surrounding them in Syria. By some estimates, there are 80-90 thousand ethnic Circassians currently living in Syria, which would make it the second largest Circassian diaspora community in the world after Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of Circassians fled Russia in the 1860s due to repression (termed by some as a genocide) by Russian armies the Caucasus; many of those fleeing settled in the Ottoman Empire.

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“Circassian of Syria ask President of Russia and head of Agygeya to take measures for their resettlement in Russia” Caucasian Knot

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