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    THE ORIGIN OF HAMSHEN ARMENIANS NOT UNDER QUESTION

    ArmRadio.am
    06.12.2006 13:26

    The hypothesis of Turkish scholars about the Turkish origin of "
    Armenian-speaking Hamshens" has been refuted. He first results
    of the molecular-hereditary expertise of Hamshen Armenians are
    already ready. "Yerkramas" newspaper of Russian Armenians reports
    that according to Dr. Levon Yepiskoposyan, the coordinator of the
    given project, the hereditary examination of DNA samples of Hamshen
    Armenians has been carried out in the London University College
    together with British colleagues.

    According to Levon Yepiskoposyan's data, the examinations allow to
    confirm that the Armenian origin of Hamshen Armenians is not under
    question.

    To note, Hamshen Armenians comprise the majority of the Armenian
    population of Krasnodar region and Kuban. They moved to Kuban still
    in mid-19th century after the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman
    Empire. According to the data of experts, about 250 thousand Hamshen
    Armenians reside in Kuban and Abkhazia, while according to different
    sources, 700,000 - 2 million Islamized Hamshen Armenians reside
    in Turkey.
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