My ancestors also stopped being nomads a long time ago.
What we always need to consider is that the steppe culture is the "origin" culture but the culture we have in all individual Turkic countries or regions are our todays real culture.
For example we Ahiska always remember that we came from...
I hope so but most probably still wont care.........
But the problem is that this show makes us look like that we dont have any identity at all.
Our ancestors were orthodox and lived in those regions long before the Ottomans conquered it.
We are proud Turks (and most are Sunni today) but this...
I saw this show and i appreciate the interest it generates.
But let me tell you this show has nothing to do with us Ahiska.
The costumes are not Ahiska costumes,the music is wrong,the whole series was filmed in Macedonia and not in Ahiska.
It also tries to make the Russians more of a villian...
That doesnt matter just look what Germany did with the German Russians.
They almost took ALL of them to Germany without any problems and gave them German passports.
Why cant Turkey do this?
Difference is that we got deported (half of us died).
We still cant get back into Georgia and for a long time nobody cared what happened to us even going so far that the US helped many of us escape from Russia.
And for a long time most of us couldnt even get to Turkey (eventhough...
The region of Artvin,Ardahan and Kars were historically parts of the Ahiska Atabek.
(While of course Armenians were the majority in Kars pre-WW1)
The name Meskhetian is invented by Russians that is true.
But Ahiska is not invented since we were in these regions long before the Ottomans were...