Hemshin people
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The Hemshin people, also known as Hemshinli or Hamshenis or Homshetsi, are an ethnographic group of Armenians who mostly practice Sunni Islam after their conversion from Christianity in the beginning
Hemsheni women in Rize, Turkey
Traditional Hemshin bagpipe, Çamlıhemşin, Rize, Turkey.
Hemshin musician Behçet Gülas plays the tulum.
A scenic view in Çamlıhemşin, mostly populated by western Hemshinlis.
Mesut Yılmaz
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Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz was a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party from 1991 to 2002, and served three times as Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two prime-ministerial terms last
Hemshin people
…Older generations of Turkish Hemshinli see the reference "Ermeni" (often used by their Laz neighbours) as an insult. Mesut Yılmaz, a former Prime Minister of Turkey, was born in Istanbul to a family with partial Hamsheni (Western group) origins. Ahmet Tevfik İleri (who was born…
Yılmaz in 1996
Foreign Minister Mesut Yılmaz behind Prime Minister Turgut Özal and President of the European Commission Jacques Delors