Deported Meskhetian Turks were allowed to carry up to of personal belongings with them per family , twice the amount as Crimean Tatars during their previous deportation . Members of other minority ethnic groups were also deported with the Meskhetian Turks , including Kurds and Hemshils ( Armenian Muslims ) , giving a total of approximately 115,000 evicted persons . One source indicates that 8,694 Kurds and 1,385 Hemshils were deported as part of the operation . Only women married to men of other , non-deported ethnic groups were spared . Each family was given two hours to collect their belongings for the trip . Seven families were loaded into each boxcar , 20-25 families into each carriage . Like the other groups from the Caucasus , they were transported several thousand miles , to Central Asia . They were sealed off in these cattle wagons for a month
previous deportation
Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Deportation of the Meskhetian Turks