My Circassian Notes

My Circassian Notes - The Sochi Notes

"Circassians – a people indigenous to the North Caucasus, who were scattered across the globe by a 19th-century tsarist military campaign that killed huge numbers – have campaigned against the Sochi Winter Olympics, and called for the killings to be recognised as genocide. A delegation of Circassians from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Israel, Canada, Germany and the US has travelled to the North Caucasus to visit the historic sites of their ancestors' homeland before the Games..."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2014/jan/24/circassians-return-sochi-winter-olympics-in-pictures




Sochi articles Concerning Circassians

Circassian priorities http://tinyurl.com/mfekeov

Circassians' Anger at Sochi Games http://tinyurl.com/ksf4k4h

Circassians return to Sochi before Winter Olympics – in pictures http://tinyurl.com/kowwtcn

Circassians to protest against selection of Sochi as 2014 Winter Olympics venue By Thameen Kheetan http://tinyurl.com/mb7urwb

Circassian Tragedy’s: 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics by Ruslan Kurbanov http://tinyurl.com/lntv8l7

Finding Sochi's Indigenous People by Mark Byrnes http://tinyurl.com/kl6zg2p

No Sochi 2014, Circassiannation.org http://tinyurl.com/msd2wte

No Sochi Olympics on stolen Circassian land? by Stephen Hui http://tinyurl.com/mbgx9c6

Russia: Sochi Olympics and the Circassian genocide by Marzia Cimmino http://tinyurl.com/n39hq4q

Sochi’s bloody history, Op-Ed by Carolyn Harris http://tinyurl.com/ls27brc

Stranded in Sochi: Turkish Journalist Detained at Airport by Fehim Taştekin, translated by Sibel Utku Bila http://tinyurl.com/kawso9horiginal article: http://tinyurl.com/ksd4vln (in Turkish)

The Circassian Dimension of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, PONARS Policy Memo No. 65 (pdf) by Sufian Zhemukhov http://tinyurl.com/mh8an3p

The Dark Secret Behind the Sochi Olympics: Russia's Efforts to Hide a Tsarist-Era Genocide by Brian Glyn Williams http://tinyurl.com/mphcn98

The Jihad of Imam Shamyl by Kerim Fenari http://tinyurl.com/k2q56ju

The People Of Russia's 'Forgotten Genocide' Return Home To Sochi Ahead Of The Winter Olympics by Harrison Jacobs http://tinyurl.com/lrf3zae

The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics is a political tinderbox for Russia by Jules Boykoff http://tinyurl.com/pvwhnh7

The Sochi Connection: The Winter Olympics and the Circassians by Merissa Khurma http://tinyurl.com/ksrvmtf

Winter of Discontent on Al-Jazeera http://tinyurl.com/lx2bkpt 
   on YouTube - The Untold Story about the Circassian Genocide in Sochi 2014 http://tinyurl.com/m55542y




Circassian Music threads in My Sochi threads

July 23, 2013  http://tinyurl.com/m7fspud   mix traditional
October 20, 2013  http://tinyurl.com/m8zr83m   mix traditional
Pearls of Circassian Folk Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaG56koI690 



My Sochi threads which include more than just links concerning Circassians
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10151768057827206
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10151772256437206
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10151776757132206
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10151788168912206
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10151794445907206
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10151804088112206
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10151964106987206
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10151964143107206
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10152146113462206
https://www.facebook.com/daphne.bradshaw/posts/10152205883422206?stream_ref=10