text: Staunton, February 25 – The new
  round of tensions between Ankara and Moscow has give the Circassians of Turkey an
  opening to request that the Turkish parliament recognize as an act of genocide the
  policies of the tsarist Russian government against their ancestors, something
  it is more likely to do now than in the past.
  The Circassian Federation of Turkey
  has handed in to the Turkish parliament a 21-page document documenting the crimes
  against humanity committed by the tsarist authorities in the hopes of securing
  Ankara’s official recognition of those actions as a genocide (capost.media/news/politika/federatsiya-cherkesskikh-organizatsiy-turtsii-trebuet-priznat-genotsid-cherkesov-/
  Yerkhov sparked a controversy last
  week when he suggested that any Circassians who left the Caucasus in 1864 did
  so voluntarily and that they had every right to remain if they wanted to. That offended all Circassians, and they are
  still furious despite his subsequent apology (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2020/02/russian-diplomats-suggestion-that.html).
  The Circassians of KBR undoubtedly
  have concluded that they have a better chance to achieving their goal for the
  same reason that the Circassians in Turkey have.