Press TV - March 26 -- As the crisis continues in Syria, the senator for the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, Albert Kazharov, has proposed changes to Russian immigration laws to help expedite and facilitate the return of the member of Circassian community from Syria.
Russia Profile -- Russia’s Motives for Supporting Syria’s Current Regime Are Pragmatic, but Diplomats Are Failing to Articulate Them Properly. The Russian Foreign Ministry declared last week that it considers the statements by the United States and its European allies regarding the illegitimacy of current Syrian President...
Ria Novosti, March 26 -- Large numbers of Syria’s Circassian community are seeking a return to their traditional homeland in Russia’s North Caucasus as fighting intensifies between government forces and rebels, a Russian senator said on Monday.“The possible coming to power of the radical Syrian opposition is viewed by...
Evolutsia - As Syria’s conflict escalates, questions abound over the fate of the Baathist country’s multiethnic constituents. For Syria’s small but significant Circassian minority, they want to go home. One hundred and fifty years after their expulsion from the North Caucasus, one...
February 8, 2012, EurasiaNet Commentary --Don’t look now, but Vladimir Putin, the man who wants to reclaim the Russian presidency in March, seems to be losing touch with one of his key constituencies – nationalists. This development has several important implications for Russia...
Today's Zaman, February 27, 2012 -- When the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) set up its first Kurdish language channel, TRT 6, in 2009, the country’s ultranationalists made no secret that they found the idea loathsome, expressing the highly irrational concern that it could open up what to them is a “Pandora’s box”...Long Lost Brethren, by Dan Peleschuk
Russia Profile - 03/27/2012 - As the violence in Syria rages on, an underreported struggle is taking place over the country’s Circassian community, which has increasingly come under fire as tensions between the Bashar al-Assad regime and opposition forces escalate. With the Assad regime apparently no longer able to ensure the Circassians’ protection, many are turning to Russia, their ancestral homeland, as a safe haven – something the Kremlin may be keen to exploit.Their ethnic roots dug into Russia’s multicultural North Caucasus, the Circassians were pushed out of the region after a bloody campaign against them by Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. Most were either slaughtered or became displaced from their homeland, winding up in such far-flung locales as Turkey, Jordan and Iraq. Those who remained were scattered throughout the northwest region of the Caucasus, populating today’s Russian republics of Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Karachayevo-Cherkessia.
Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, Etcetera, by Edmund Spencer, Esq
Selections from Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, Etcetera by Edmund Spencer, Esq. (originally published in 1837) - Upon Entering Circassian Proper - Circassian...
The Circassians: A Forgotten Genocide?, by Stephen D. Shenfield
The massacre of the Circassians, a forgotten people, serves as the subject of Stephen D. Shenfield’s essay. The Circassians were forced to resettle after the tsarist conquest of their territory.
Papers respecting the Settlement of Circassian Emigrants in Turkey
Sir H. Bulwer to Earl Russell. – (Received April 23) Constantinople, April 12, 1864 -- My Lord,The continued advances of the Russians in Circassia, and the ill-treatment...
Tevfik Esenç - the last person able to speak the Ubykh language
Tevfik Esenç (1904 - October 7, 1992) was a Circassian exile in Turkey and the last known speaker of the Ubykh language. Esenç was raised by his Ubykh-speaking grandparents...
Selected Interview: Stephen Shenfield
The Circassian “genocide” is no longer as badly neglected as it was. – An interview with Stephen Shenfield, November 2009
Selected Interview: Paul Goble
Paul Goble, director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy answers CW's questions. 2008
Western Caucasian Dolmens, V.I. Markovin
Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, vol. 41, no. 4 (Spring 2002), pp. 68– 88. Every type of monument from the western Caucasus gains certain popularity from time to time. When this happens... Read more...
Reflections on the Caucasus: 21 May 1864-2010
This project is the outcome of a desire of CircassianWorld.com, which has always tried to publicize academic works from the very day of its inception, to provide a platform for academics, researchers, politicians... Read more...
The Circassian Dimension of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, by Sufian Zhemukhov
PONARS Policy Memo No. 65 - Georgetown University. In 2014, the popular Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi will host the Winter Olympics, signifying Russia’s increasingly high international profile. Read more...
Imagining Circassia: David Urquhart and the Making of North Caucasus Nationalism
By Charles King - The Russian Review, Volume 66, Issue 2 (April 2007) Pages 238 - 255. Peripheral nations attract committed intercessors. Over the last two centuries, the cause of almost every sizeable... Read more...
The Circassians in Jordan
The first wave of Circassian immigrants, who were mainly of Shapsugh extraction, arrived in Jordan in 1878 and took refuge in the old ruins of Amman. These were followed by the Kabardians who settled in... Read more...
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