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I'm a Laz person, and I don't want to live under Turkish authority anymore, I'm sick of the oppression, how can I resist the Turkish goverment together with my Laz people?
Feb 24, 2012 — language, a political party or any type of autonomy or separation. ... ethnonationalism among the Laz in Turkey, while the elements of the ...
The majority of Laz community refrains from speaking up identity-related demands believing that these efforts would strengthen separatist groups and divide the national Turkish identity.[1][2][3][4][5] However Turkey’s Laz people are awakening to their language and culture, though it is still premature to speak of a Laz Renaissance. Amid the reform process in Turkey, the Laz, too, have embarked on a journey to rediscover their culture. In the eastern Black Sea towns of Pazar, Ardesen, Camlihemsin, Findikli, Arhavi, Hopa and Borcka, the are population swells natives of the region return home.[6] The Laz Language is in no way a part of the Georgian language, neither linguistically, nor as a dialect of the Georgian. The Laz community objects to and rejects any political terminologies such as Kartvelian Language. These terminologies foreground the Georgian language and disregard the Mingelian and Laz language as a written language. As a result of this, the Laz and Mingrelian literature is ignored and is even termed as separatist literature and has become subject of ridicule.[7] The Laz are shifting to the Turkish of Trebizond.[8][9][10][11][12]
Not only the Pashas (governors) of Trabzon until the 19th century, but real authority in many of the cazas (districts) of each sanjak by the mid-17th century lay in the hands of relatively independent native Laz derebeys ("valley-lords"), or feudal chiefs who exercised absolute authority in their own districts, carried on petty warfare with each other, did not owe allegiance to a superior and never paid contributions to the sultan. This state of insubordination was not really broken until the assertion of Ottoman authority during the reforms of the Osman Pasha in 1850s.
In 1547, Ottomans acquired the coastal fortress of Gonia, which served as capital of Lazistan; then Batum until it was acquired by the Russians in 1878, throughout the Russo-Turkish War, thereafter, Rize became the capital of the sanjak. The Muslim Lazs living near the war zones in Batumi Oblast were subjected to ethnic cleansing; many Lazes living in Batumi fled to the Ottoman Empire, settling along the southern Black Sea coast to the east of Samsun and Marmara region.
Around 1914 Ottoman policy towards the Christian population shifted; state policy was since focused to the forceful migration of Christian Pontic Greek and Laz population living in coastal areas to the Anatolian hinterland. In the 1920s Christian population of the Pontus were expelled to Greece.
The autonomous Lazistan sanjak existed until the end of the empire in 1923. The designation of the term of Lazistan was officially banned in 1926, by the Kemalists.[13] Lazistan was divided between Rize and Artvin provinces.
The first thing that strikes me about this article is that there hasn't been any secession of any part of the Republic of Turkey since its foundation, and that Separatism in Turkey would be a better title. The second is that the article provides no evidence of any Armenian or Laz separatism, and that the only separatism it can point to is Kurdish. There might be a Kurdish separatism in Turkey or Kurdish nationalism in Turkey article here, otherwise it ought to redirect somewhere else. Konli17 (talk) 16:40, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
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