People Group Prayer Guides
Pray for the Meskhetian Turks
There are 350,000 Meskhetian Turks (pronounced "mesh-KET-ien TURKS") who are a people without a country. They were deported by Stalin in 1944 from the country of Georgia to Uzbekistan. They were declared traitors to the Soviet Union because they were evidently in the way of a planned invasion of eastern Turkey by Stalin. This judgment against them has never been lifted.
In 1989, they were persecuted in Uzbekistan, many died, and most fled for Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. These governments have refused to give Meskhetian Turks either citizenship or recognize them as official refugees. Most still carry USSR passports, meaning that they have few rights and continue to be persecuted. There are only a handful of known believers among them. Because the Meskhetian Turks are widely scattered, it will take a special team of people called to reach this Muslim people group.
Pray for God to raise up such a team. Pray for God to call two "God-fearing" Meskhetian Turks, "Nabi" and "Ali", to follow Jesus as Messiah and start a house church among their family.