Georgians in Turkey

Georgians in Turkey experienced assimilation those people today are Lazs and Imerkartvels who mostly live in Artvin.

Chveneburi Georgians had arrived in Turkey in three waves of migration due to pogroms by the Russian Empire, in what is now called the Circassian genocide.

The first wave was during and after the 1828-1829 Russo-Turkish War, when the Sublime Porte consigned its sovereignty over several parts of Georgia to the Russian Empire.

This wave of immigration involved at least 500,000 people from historic Georgian regions that had considerable Muslim populations, such as Batumi and Kars.

The last sizable wave of immigration was in 1921, when Turkey finally gave up its claims on Adjara in the Treaty of Kars with the Soviet republics.

Distribution of the Imerkhevian dialect
Ali Pasha of Çürüksu (front row, middle) and Ottoman Georgians during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) . At the end of the war, the re-settlement of Ottoman Georgians in Fatsa was supervised by Ali Pasha. [ 11 ]