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Ukrainian efforts to woo support from Russia’s ethnic peoples and stir them against Moscow have divided the sizable Circassian community in Turkey, where many see the moves as a Western-backed attempt to “open a new front” on Russia.
While the International Circassian Association, based in Russia’s mainly Muslim North Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, has acted as a mouthpiece of the Kremlin, some Circassian exiles appear willing to support Ukraine, despite the danger.
