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MESKHET TURKS PAY "TOURIST" VISIT TO JAVAKHK
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 26 2006
AKHALKALAK, JUNE 26, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. About 400 Meskhet
Turks arrived in the region of Akhalkalak on June 21. According to the
"A-Info" agency, guests arrived in Javakhk left for the terriroty of
the villages of Khavet, Davni in the south-western part of the region
of Akhalkalak where their forefathers' settlements were once. Turks
mentioned in conversations with local Armenians that the goal of
their visit is just "tourist" one, and they have no issue of being
re-setteled in this territory.
The "A-Info" reminds at the same time, that the absolute majority of
settlements of Meskhet Turks exiled in 1944 in the regions of Aspindza
and Adigen today re-settled mainly by Georgians.
The tourist visit of Meskhet Turks to Javahkh has no direct tie with
the state program of their re-settlement in Georgia.
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jun 26 2006
AKHALKALAK, JUNE 26, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. About 400 Meskhet
Turks arrived in the region of Akhalkalak on June 21. According to the
"A-Info" agency, guests arrived in Javakhk left for the terriroty of
the villages of Khavet, Davni in the south-western part of the region
of Akhalkalak where their forefathers' settlements were once. Turks
mentioned in conversations with local Armenians that the goal of
their visit is just "tourist" one, and they have no issue of being
re-setteled in this territory.
The "A-Info" reminds at the same time, that the absolute majority of
settlements of Meskhet Turks exiled in 1944 in the regions of Aspindza
and Adigen today re-settled mainly by Georgians.
The tourist visit of Meskhet Turks to Javahkh has no direct tie with
the state program of their re-settlement in Georgia.