From Past to Future, a Cultural Bridge:
Uzuntarla Circassian Museum
One Culture – One Spirit – One Identity
After the occupation of Circassia by the colonialist Tsarist regime was completed with a great massacre on May 21, 1864, our surviving compatriots were torn from their paradise homeland and exiled to different geographies. Thus, the Circassian nation, forced to live dispersed across some fifty countries, managed to preserve its culture through great efforts.
May 9, 2026, is a historic day on which an important bridge has been built in the deep history of Circassian culture stretching from the past to the future. The Uzuntarla Circassian Museum, which makes an exceptional contribution to Turkey’s cultural richness, holds strategic importance in carrying national memory to the future. This official museum, built to international standards, is a cultural fortress that conveys Circassian nobility to the world in a universal language through the hundreds of years of cultural and artistic works it houses.
We extend our sincere gratitude to the Ministry and Municipal administrators who contributed to the establishment of the Museum, which undertakes a vital function in transferring the cultural richness carried from the Caucasus to Anatolia from generation to generation, as well as to the experts and volunteers who provided support.
The CNA, which carries out activities within the framework of international law and human rights norms to protect the rights and honor of the Circassian nation and to regain our respectable place among the nations of the world through our culture and identity, is ready to cooperate for the international promotion of the Uzuntarla Circassian Museum, which has taken on a pioneering role, and for it to be made the subject of academic studies.
Long Live Circassian Culture! Long Live the Circassian Nation! Long Live Circassia!
