Dal silenzio alla mobilitazione : la diaspora caucasica nella Turchia repubblicana

Nearly seven million Turkish citizens are fully or partly descendants of refugees coming from Northern and SouthWestern Caucasus and more than two million of them keep and vigorously affirm a strong commitment to their roots. The public expression of their identity was totally forbidden from 1923 to 1946, but has been more or less tolerated since then. After a discussion of some meaningful events of the republican age, a survey of the current situation of this community is provided. Traditionally present in the Ottoman and later republican state apparatus much more than the Kurds, perceived as a privileged rather than a victimized minority, the Caucasian diaspora looks increasingly less inclined to blend in. [Publisher's text].