The events of the Circassian Genocide , namely the ethnic cleansing , killing , forced migration , and expulsion of the majority of the Circassians from their historical homeland in the Caucasus , resulted in the death of approximately at least 600,000 Caucasian natives up to 1,500,000 deaths , and the successful migration of the remaining of 900,000 - 1,500,000 Caucasians which immigrated to Anatolia due to intermittent Russian attacks from 1768 to 1917 ; about two-thirds of them remained , and the rest were sent to Amman , Damascus , Aleppo , and Cyprus . Today up to there are up to 7,000,000 people of Circassian descent living in Turkey presumably more with Circassian descent since it 's been hard to differentiate between ethnic groups in Turkey
Circassian Genocide
Circassian genocide
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