Chechens in Turkey

Turkish Chechens
Total population
100,000
Languages
Turkish, Chechen, Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam

Chechens in Turkey (Chechen: Туркойчура нохчий, romanized: Turkoyçura noxçiy; Turkish: Türkiye Çeçenleri) are Turkish citizens of Chechen descent and Chechen refugees living in Turkey. The Chechen diaspora in Turkey dates back to the 19th century when the Russian Empire started ethnically cleansing Chechens from their homeland; these expulsions would later become known as the Chechen genocide, contemporaneous with the Circassian genocide.

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