Georgia realizes program for return of Meskhetian Turks

Georgian Foreign Minister Maya Panjikidze said that the program for support of Meskhetian Turks, encouraged by the Council of Europe, helped over 5,000 of them to return and about 800-900 file documents to gain citizenship.

She noted that the country needed legislative adjustments to help Meskhetian Turks.

A special commission was initiated to speed up the process of granting citizenship to the ethnicity in 2011.