Armenians in Samtskhe–Javakheti

Here, ethnic Armenians form the great majority of the population with minorities of Georgians, Russians and Caucasus Greeks.

In 1944 the government of the Soviet Union exiled the Meskhetian Turkish population of Meskheti (approximately 100,000 person) to Central Asia (Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan).

The five villages of Sagamo, Khavet, Erindja, Davnia, and Karsep in the Akhalkalaki district and the Bogdanovka areas were settled by Armenians.

[citation needed] During Zviad Gamsakhurdia's presidency (1991), Javakheti remained de facto semi-independent and only in November 1991 the Tbilisi-appointed governor was able to take power.

The Georgian military units were to hold exercises with the Russians in Akhalkalaki, and the local Armenian population was not told about it.

Chakhalyan was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in 2009 for "acquisition and possession of firearms and ammunition, organizing a group action which grossly disrupted public order, hooliganism committed against a government representative.

[22] The ethnic Armenian United Javakhk Democratic Alliance calls on a local autonomy for Javakheti within Georgia.