"Georgia: Meskhetian Turks Closer to Return New draft law guarantees return of deported people to Georgia but promises no help with resettlement. By Natia Kuprashvili in Tbilisi and Nino Gerzmava in Ianeti (CRS No. 406 17-Aug-07) “This law reminds me of the well-known Georgian song where they tell a multi-coloured butterfly, ‘Don’t fly away, but don’t come flying here,’” said Madin Mamedov. Mamedov is one of a small community of 1,200 Meskhetian Turks who settled in Georgia in the 1970s, some 30 years after they were deported from there by Stalin. He lives in a close-knit community in the village of Ianeti in the Samtredi region of western Georgia."
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