Turkey and North-Caucasian Political Emigration

The North-Caucasian political emigration that left Russia as a result of the Civil War in 1917-1920, while in exile conducted a long, but fruitless struggle under the slogan ¿Even with the Satan, but against the Bolsheviks,¿ trying topple the Soviet government that estblished itself in the North Caucasus. That struggle was most active in the 1920s-1940s. The North-Caucasian political emigration established various political organizations, parties and associations in Turkey and a number of European countries and was ready to provide its whole potential to any state, having interest to assist the North-Caucasian emigration and use it to tackle its own foreign policy problems. Among such states Turkey was priority, because the most part of the North-Caucasian emigration, following the example of their predecessors, considered Turkey as the ¿second homeland,¿ and which, in the context of its political goals, traditionally used the North-Caucasian peoples¿ striving for independence and the struggle against Russia.