KFAR KAMA – Sara Thakoo is an eighth-generation resident of Kfar Kama. A non-Arab Sunni Muslim, the 48-year-old speaks fluent Hebrew, Arabic, English, and, most importantly, Adghye, the language of ...

On 21 May each year, Circassians around the world honor their ancestors who perished in the course of the Russian Empire's war of conquest against them. The 101-year struggle culminated in the mass ...

Last July, Doku Umarov, a shadowy militant leader operating in Russia’s North Caucasus, urged Muslims through a video message to launch attacks on the Winter Olympics, which begin this week in the ...

This documentary explores the Circassian Genocide - one of the 19th century’s most devastating and overlooked atrocities. As the Russian Empire expanded into the Caucasus, it launched a relentless ...

As of November 2024, in the ongoing Russian–Ukrainian war, approximately 200 people from Kabardino-Balkaria, 150 from Karachay-Cherkessia, and 200 from the Republic of Adygea, along with about 250 ...

Circassian in Turkey marched to the Russian Consulate building and asked for the recognition of the Circassian Genocide occurred 148 years ago on May 21, 1864. "Hundreds of Circassians were massacred ...

It is not easy to find Circassians in historical Circassia, a densely vegetated land of rolling hills and mountain slopes soaring to snowy heights along the northeastern coast of the Black Sea. The ...

In the Russian Federation republics of Kabardino-Balkaria, Adygea, and Karachay-Cherkessia, May 21 is officially recognized as the Day of Mourning for the Circassians — victims of genocide during the ...

The Circassians in Turkey held commemoration ceremonies in Kefken and in Ankara on May 21, the 159th anniversary of the Tsitsekun. The Circassian diaspora in Turkey organized commemoration ceremonies ...

Damascus, Dec. 27 (SANA) The Circassians (Adyghe) in Syria represent a rich model of social and cultural diversity, carrying with them from their original homeland in the North Caucasus an ancient ...

In a twist of historical irony, Vladimir Putin’s aggressive campaign in Ukraine has cast a renewed and intense global spotlight on Russia’s often suppressed past, particularly its legacy of imperial ...