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  • Deadly clashes have broken out between mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Meskhetian Turks in a village on the outskirts of the capital, while Bakiyev's supporters in his southern stronghold have managed to maintain control of the region by imposing their own interim governor.

    Belarus: Ousted Kyrgyz President In Minsk 2010

  • Mayevka is populated largely by Meskhetian Turks, descendants of an ethnic group deported from Soviet Georgia in 1944.

    Belarus: Ousted Kyrgyz President In Minsk 2010

  • Others are smaller and obscure, such as the Ingush, the Ossetes, the Avars, the Abkhaz, the Balkars, the Kalmyks, the Mingrelians, and the Meskhetian Turks.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • Others are smaller and obscure, such as the Ingush, the Ossetes, the Avars, the Abkhaz, the Balkars, the Kalmyks, the Mingrelians, and the Meskhetian Turks.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • Others are smaller and obscure, such as the Ingush, the Ossetes, the Avars, the Abkhaz, the Balkars, the Kalmyks, the Mingrelians, and the Meskhetian Turks.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • Mayevka is populated largely by Meskhetian Turks, descendants of an ethnic group deported from Soviet Georgia in 1944.

    News 2010

  • In a show of strength, the government deployed 300 troops and police to intercept a crowd of several hundred men looting and trying to seize land belonging to Meskhetian Turks and Russians on the outskirts of Bishkek.

    The Moscow Times Combined Reports 2010

  • Deadly clashes have broken out between mobs of ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Meskhetian Turks in a village on the outskirts of the capital, while Mr. Bakiyev's supporters in his southern stronghold have managed to maintain control of the region by imposing their own interim governor.

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines Yuras Karamanau ASSOCIATED PRESS 2010

  • "When we learned that there was a claim out on our field, we urgently evacuated women and children from the village," said Alik Aliyev, an ethnic Meskhetian Turk inhabitant of Mayevka.

    News 2010

  • "When we learned that there was a claim out on our field, we urgently evacuated women and children from the village," said Alik Aliyev, an ethnic Meskhetian Turk inhabitant of Mayevka.

    News 2010

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