Talk:Peoples of the Caucasus in Turkey

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Khoikhoi, I noticed this page while doing RC patrol. I almost nominated it for AfD before I realized you are the one who started it. You do good work and I respect both your contributions and dedication to accuracy. I'm just curious, though, if you think this can be developed into a full article with info that's not contained elsewhere. All of the ethnic groups mentioned here already have their own page so describing them in detail would be redundant. I'm just wondering if WP might be better served by merging the info here into an article like Turkey or Demographics of Turkey or maybe a list such as List of ethnic groups in Turkey. Again, I'm not sure what you have planned for this article so I hope you don't mind the suggestions.--WilliamThweatt 04:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi William, I appreciate the suggestions. I guess I see what you're saying. It's just all these groups have something in common, and I wanted to have them all in one article. They all have the same place of origin, and they are all related. They have very similar histories as well—both in Russia and in Turkey. Those are just my reasons. —Khoikhoi 03:15, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I like the bulleted format better; it helped me understand where you are going with the page. Now the only problem I see is: how many people are going to search for "Peoples of the Caucasus in Turkey"? :-) I think the only way people will see it is through links from other pages, but I noticed nothing links here yet. I don't know enough about these groups to help out with the content, but I'll try to get it wikilinked onto some relevant pages.--WilliamThweatt 04:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the linkage! Hey, perhaps you could vote at the bottom of the page at Talk:Caucasus? I'm trying to get the page moved back. —Khoikhoi 05:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

I would take issue with the rather curt and unsympathetic reference to the Circassians' defence of their homelands in the mid-19th century as an "insurgency" - they were fighting for their lives! These closely related peoples of the North-West Caucasus had lived in their territory largely undisturbed for at least 6000 years, until their cultures and languages were virtually eliminated in the cause of Great Russian imperialism. One needs only to look east across the Caucasus to Chechnya to get some idea of what happened then, and what is still happening today under Putin. Perhaps someone could come up with some slightly more elegant phraseology to describe this unfortunate period of 'ethnic cleansing'.86.138.114.228 17:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)