Our new video: “Remembering the Circassian Genocide and Exile on its 160th Anniversary with Elbruz Aksoy”

The video is in Turkish but a long summary is provided below:  Remembering the Circassian Genocide and Exile on its 160th Anniversary with Elbruz Aksoy – Video Summary Speaker: Elbruz Aksoy Guest: Elbruz Aksoy Subject: Circassian Genocide and Exile Historical Background of the Circassian Genocide and Exile 160 Years of Diaspora:** New terminology of the … Read more

Just finished a fantastic book about “White Slaves”

A former graduate student of mine published a book on “White Slaves.” These were mostly Circassians (and many Caucasian region people labeled as Circassians), and although slavery was banned in the late Ottoman Empire, slavery continued until the 1940s in Anatolia albeit in a a very smaller scale! This is quite an awakening moment for … Read more

Racist of the month in Turkey: Murat Bardakçı

In an anti-racism initiative’s poll Murat Bardakçı was voted to be the racist of the March this year in Turkey. His talk against the Circassian rights in Turkey was labelled as racist. News in Turkish.   Murat Bardakçı – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia