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From: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA | Date: August 12, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Aygul Sidayeva was hesitant to summon songs of the homeland her mother sang while rocking the cradle.

"If I start, I won't get through them," Sidayeva, 45, said through an interpreter, her eyes moistening.

Home for Sidayeva's Turkish-speaking mother was a region of Georgia called Meskhetia, near the Black Sea. Her mother called it home even though she left when she was 7, never to return.

It was November 1944, and Stalin had it in for the Meskhetian Turks. Soviet authorities packed them into unheated railroad cars and deported them thousands of miles east to Uzbekistan. Many died during the ...

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