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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Niko Vorobyov, Paul Benjamin Osterlund

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Ukrainian refugees russian exiles seek shelter in turkey - Caught on Camera

A woman kneels as Ukrainians living in Turkey protest against Russia's military invasion of Ukraine at Ulus districit in Ankara, on March 5, 2022 [Adem Altan/AFP]

Istanbul, Turkey – For more than a hundred years, Turkey, Russia’s southern neighbour across the Black Sea has hosted waves of refugees and exiles.

In the 19th century, Circassians fled to the Ottoman Empire from a genocide by tsarist Russia.

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