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	Problem of migration to Georgia
		The migration to Tsalka was also coordinated allegedly on an oral basis with the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
		On October 19 the administration of the district organized a meeting participated by representatives of Meskheti Turks and Cossacks where the participants were informed of the plans of migration to Tsalka district of 100 families and of the fact that the departure of Meskheti Turks from the Krai is planned for near future.
		The Greeks from Tsalka who live in Krasnodarski Krai now have warned the leaders of Meskheti Turks (according to the latter) from settling to their district and have informed of the intent of those who left the district temporarily to return there finally.
	www.memo.ru /hr/discrim/meshi/ENG/chapter17.htm (2719 words)

	THE ETHNIC GREEKS IN TSALKA CALL FOR HELP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Yesterday, Greeks of Tsalka Union “O Pontos” President Pavlos Kotanov died from a stroke at the age of 80.
		The ethnic Greeks in Tsalka are Orthodox Christians and descendents of refugees from Pontos in Turkey who inhabited the remote region of Georgia for the first time as far back as 1829.
		The remote Tsalka with the abandoned houses became attractive for the Svanja, the domestic immigrants from western Georgia, and the Adjarians.
	www.mpa.gr /article.html?doc_id=523498 (452 words)

	GEORGIA'S GREEK AND ARMENIAN COMMUNITIES DECRY RESETTLEMENT PLANS - Eurasia Daily Monitor
		Tsalka, population 22,000, is predominantly populated by ethnic Armenians and Greeks.
		Tsalka is also close to the predominantly Armenian-populated Samtskhe-Javakheti locality, which is considered a "complex region" because of the presence of a Russian military base and increasing demands for political autonomy by some local Armenian groups.
		Meanwhile, Tsalka's Georgian inhabitants complain about systematic violence from the Greeks and Armenians who, they argue, are against the resettlement of Georgians in the district.
	www.jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2369459 (883 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The state is going to purchase residential houses for them, though according to the information spread, the Armenian population of this region is against settling the migrants there.
		Van Baiburti denies this information, though he confirms that the Armenians of Tsalka “have some fears, which can be explained with discreditable behavior of some Georgians”.
		The Georgians of Tsalka were holding protest actions at the state Chancellery, after which the tension was eased.
	www.humanrights.ge /eng/news271.shtml (219 words)

	NEOS KOSMOS ENGLISH EDITION \| Feature
		Tsalka was once one of Soviet Georgia's most prosperous regions with its dairy products being very popular in the Kremlin.
		He was assigned Tsalka's priest in 1977 and hails from the port city of Sukhumi, capital of the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
		Ironically in the past he had to baptise Tsalka's Greeks secretly, nowadays the restrictions may have gone but there are very few to baptise as people have fled troubled Tsalka.
	www.neoskosmos.com.au /041115/nkew/feature/feature_index.shtml (1563 words)

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		Dan Tsalka (1936-2005) was born in Warsaw, Poland, and spent many years during World War II in Siberia and Kazakhstan.
		Tsalka taught at Tel Aviv University, at Ben-Gurion University, and was writer-in-residence at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
		Tsalka published six novels, eight collections of short stories, three books of poetry, three books of essays, an autobiography and three children`s books.
	www.ithl.org.il /author_info.asp?id=276 (361 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tsalka district has always been ethnically diverse, with most villages there inhabited by Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Greeks.
		"Tsalka district was chosen [for resettlement] because there’s a lot of abandoned houses and uncultivated land there, not because of its ethnic composition," she told IWPR.
		"The fact is that both the local population and the migrants are hostages to the government's lack of professionalism and concern," said Tsalka district administration chief Mikheil Tskitishvili.
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/cau/cau_200504_280_3_eng.txt (1543 words)

	MINELRES: Caucasus Reporting Service No. 280: excerpts
		By Zaza Baazov in Tsalka, southern Georgia Ethnic issues are playing a part in growing communal frictions in a region west of the Georgian capital.
		Razmik Anesyan, from the village of Ozni, said, "The people who have described this as an ethnic problem are journalists who've spent one hour here and drawn some odd conclusions." Leila Metreveli, Georgia's deputy minister for refugees and resettlement, says the assertion that the government has embarked on some kind of ethnic project is nonsense.
		Others find themselves in a subordinate position as tenants on land owned by the original residents, and the situation is worsened by the lack of clearly regulated ownership and distribution of farming land There has also been an upsurge in crime, which gets blamed on the newcomers.
	lists.delfi.lv /pipermail/minelres/2005-April/003922.html (2471 words)

	Military garrison to be permanently stationed in Tsalka area
		A military garrison will be permanently stationed in the area of Tsalka, a Georgian town in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region in the south of Georgia.
		The permanent garrison is needed to prevent the escalation of tension in the region, the minister said.
		Units of the Georgian Interior Troops consisting of 150 people and additional units of the Georgian Interior Ministry were sent to Tsalka because of it.
	eng.kavkaz.memo.ru /newstext/engnews/id/665682.html (134 words)

	Caspian : Pipelines & People :: Feb05 Case Study : Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During the Soviet era, the town was highly populated but today official figures indicate that only some 10,000 people are left in Tsalka.
		Some say that the BTC and SCP pipeline projects attracted some people to the region but new population movements also require infrastructure and basic services to be improved.
		Tsalka secondary school is one of the three pilot schools in Georgia where a computer lab has been installed powered by solar panels.
	www.caspiandevelopmentandexport.com /asp/PipelinesandPeopleFeb05_1.asp (425 words)

	Macedonian Press Agency: News in English, 05-04-19
		The region was populated by thousands of ethnic Greeks in the past but today they are estimated at 2,000 people mostly elderly who struggle to cope with a negligible pension of about 12 euros per month.
		Main opposition Socialist Party of PASOK Euro-deputy Panos Beglitis requests to be informed by the European Union Council on the issue concerning the violation of fundamental rights of ethnic Greeks living in the region of Tsalka in Georgia of the former Soviet Union.
		Solana in cooperation with the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the UN Human Rights Committee is ready to prepare a report on the human rights situation of the ethnic Greeks in Georgia.
	www.hri.org /news/greek/mpab/2005/05-04-19.mpab.html (1445 words)

	WORLD COUNCIL OF HELLENES ABROAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		SAE President toured Hellenic houses that have been damaged and had the opportunity to talk with many Hellenes who expressed their anger and described to him the conditions of terror they are experiencing during the past two years.
		Athens stressed the fact that Hellenes of the Diaspora have the power to contribute to the improvement of this terrible situation and the living conditions of Hellenes in the area who are experiencing such attacks for the last seven years and more intensively during the last two years.
		Athens’ visit to Tsalka coincided with another sad event, the death of the President of the Association of Hellenes of Tsalka “O Pontos”, Pavlos Kotanov.
	www.sae.gr /EN/Nea_Eidiseis?cmd=show&id=678 (610 words)

	Blogrel » Further unrest in Georgia
		Tsalka (south-east Georgia), 10 May: A 150-strong unit of the Internal Troops numbering will be deployed in Tsalka District on Monday (10 May) following mass disturbances involving the district’s ethnic Armenian and Georgian residents on Sunday.
		Prime-News correspondent has reported from Tsalka that the president’s representative in Kvemo Kartli Region, Ioseb Mazmishvili, as well as a group of investigators from the regional offices of the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor-General’s Office, arrived in Tsalka on Monday to investigate the incident.
		The Prime-News correspondent has said that the regional administration will be based in Tsalka until the final settlement of the situation in the district.
	www.blogrel.com /2004/05/12/further-unrest-in-georgia (272 words)

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		Alik is one of a few of the residents of this small Azeri village in the Tsalka district who speak Georgian.
		In contrast to residents of Gedaklari, dwellers of Mskhaldidi are short of land.
		In Tsalka potato is sold wholesale for $0.1 per kilogram.
	www.caucasusjournalists.net /eng/item.asp?id=118 (2763 words)

	PRESS RELEASE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Foundation’s major contribution not only renovated an existing building in Tsalka in which to house the medical center, it also provided for all of the medical equipment the center needed to help vulnerable Hellenes and their neighbors.
		Tsalka is a historic Hellenic community in Georgia, where Hellenes have lived for centuries.
		Recently the Hellenes of Tsalka have been the victims of terrorism by other ethnic groups living in the region, who have so far murdered 10 Hellenes, including the husband of the nurse who works at the PHCI clinic in Tsalka.
	www.saeworld.org /news/phcipress.html (451 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Among them are Israeli novelist/poet Dan Tsalka, 69; Iraqi-Jewish novelist and literary critic Naim Kattan, 76, who has been living in Montreal for 50 years; and Iranian-Jewish Roya Hakakian, a television journalist in the United States.
		Among the events related to the Middle East are a panel discussion among Kattan, Lebanese writer Nadine Latif and Thierry Hentsch, author of Imagining the Middle East, who teaches international relations at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, on the possibility of “East/West” dialogue, in French, April 1 at 5:30 p.m.
		On April 3 at 11:30 a.m., Tsalka joins Diana Abu-Jaber, John Asfour and Badia Kashgari, who are, respectively, of Jordanian, Lebanese and Saudi Arabian origin, in an English-language discussion of what they have in common, despite coming from different Middle Eastern backgrounds, and what sets them apart from Western writers.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=5759 (666 words)

	Jerusalem Post: Reading from Right to left@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		If rationalism ignores the irrational, it can never understand the human soul; but if our efforts to understand the human soul are irrational, they become as inaccessible to reason as what they try to fathom.
		This is the riddle that infuses Dan Tsalka's latest collection of stories, Yehoash Verokhvei Hamerkava Hashmeimit ("Yehoash and the Riders of the Heavenly Chariot"), published by Zmora-Bitan in its literary series, 'Amudim Lesifrut 'Ivrit ("Pages [or Columns ] for Hebrew Literature").
		In these stories Tsalka ranges geographically and historically from...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:4773074&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (203 words)

	MHC Research Trio Spend Summer in Georgia
		After severe mudslides and flooding caused by illegal logging and a hydroelectric dam in the mountains of Svaneti and Ajaria left many Georgian residents homeless, the government resettled these displaced people in Tsalka in homes that had been abandoned by Greeks and Armenians who believed they’d have better economic opportunities in their native countries.
		In May of 2004, the government sent troops to the region after people were injured during a fight at a soccer match.
		The crime rate in poverty-stricken Tsalka is high, further straining relations between ethnic groups, according to Guruli.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/news/georgia.shtml (529 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Until recently, the majority of Tsalka's 25,000 population were Greeks, with Armenians the second largest ethnic group and Georgians comprising only approximately 10 percent of the total population.
		Earlier in June, Nationalist Party of Georgia leader Zaza Vashakmadze warned that the situation in Tsalka is comparable to that in Abkhazia in the late 1980s.
		He claimed that the Georgian minority are deprived of Georgian-language education for their children, and are under pressure to leave the region.
	www.idpproject.org /Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/BB92AF100C386F22C12569E30052CC3B (510 words)

	Caspian : Pipelines & People :: Feb05 Case Study : Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tsiala Khvintelani has been director of Tsalka secondary school for the last five years.
		She explains that the population consisted mostly of minorities some time ago, but the balance has since changed.
		However, Georgians had difficulties in receiving a comprehensive education in their native language and the government decided to bring in Georgian classes to Tsalka when they started to settle in the area.
	www.caspiandevelopmentandexport.com /asp/PipelinesandpeopleFeb05_3.asp (369 words)

	Hebrew Literature_Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This dramatic tale of adventure and danger is a sophisticated depiction of medieval Jewish-Christian relations.
		Tsalka's gripping recreation of life in 15th century Germany abounds with such esoteric details as the training of falcons, how to win a sword fight and the proper way to cast horoscopes.
		Critics and readers have been won over by Tsalka's portrayal of life in the Middle Ages.
	www.ithl.org.il /book_info.asp?id=198 (226 words)

	Jobs.GE - Printer friendly version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The goal of the Improved Schools Project (ISP) is to create a harmonious and secure environment for sustained socio-economic development of pipeline-affected communities by preparing adolescents attending school in Akhaltsikhe, Tsalka and Bakuriani to participate more effectively in Georgia’s future social and economic growth.
		The objective of the assignment is to develop and deliver training course for the teachers and students of two model secondary schools (Tsalka and Bakuriani) relevant to the current needs for target audience-teachers and children.
		Education: Completed secondary education supplemented by course studies and training in the field of computer science; post secondary studies in the related field are an asset.
	www.jobs.ge /print.php?id=159 (397 words)

	TSALKA WILL BE PROTECTED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The ethnic Greeks in Tsalka live in a state of terror especially during the past two years as a result of organized attacks by criminal elements among the settlers.
		Athens pointed out that the attacks target exclusively the ethnic Greeks who live in the remote region of Tsalka and stressed that himself and SAE as well as the Greek government cannot be indifferent to the problem and will assist the efforts for its final solution in every way.
		The Georgian Prime Minister thanked SAE for the Medical Program it materializes for the past eight years in Georgia offering free medical services to people of Greek and other origin while he expressed strong interest in the materialization of the SAE draft program for the creation of small sized businesses in Georgia.
	www.mpa.gr /article.html?doc_id=523991 (353 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This mission was set up in the context of a huge influx into Western Europe of asylum seekers from Georgia who complained of discrimination.
		The mission took place in Tbilisi and in the provinces (Tsalka, Akhalkalaki, Akhaltsikhe).
		The mission mainly focused on cases relating to the Yezidi Kurds, and the minorities in the regions of Tsalka and Samtskhe-Javakhetia.
	www.humanrights.ge /eng/stat125.shtml (354 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » OCHA Georgia: IDP Bulletin Issue No. 3
		In brief, the project envisaged resettling of 10 IDP families in Tsalka district and involving them in agricultural activities.
		Beneficiaries of the project were not only IDP families, but the host (Greek) community of Tsalka as well.
		Due to delays in the grant disbursement, some activities envisaged in the project were changed and adjusted to reflect the seasonal needs.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/8610c5aa7dd6b068c1256d2c003f180d (1813 words)

	Information on the Visit to Georgia of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic Panayotis Skandalakis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Panayotis Skandalakis traveled to the Tsalka Region where he met with the local authorities and ethnic Greeks.
		Due to its topical importance the issue of the Tsalka Region was also discussed at the meetings.
		In conversation with His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II, emphasis was laid on the need of strengthening cooperation between the Georgian and Greek Orthodox Churches.
	www.mfa.gov.ge /news.php?newsid=updates/EEklpZklFpuFzwufpg.php (464 words)

	Press Release - January 15, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Following heavy pressure from the BP led BTC Co on the former president, Edward Shevardnadze, and his Minister of the Environment, the routing of the pipeline through the highly sensitive support zone of the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park and the Tsalka region was approved in violation of Georgian environmental law.
		Towards the end of last year the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) separately agreed to finance the BTC pipeline, moves which have both provided USD 500 million of the USD 3.6 billion total and, more significantly, a priceless seal of western approval for the project.
		The drinking water reserves in the Tsalka region are an alternative water source for Tbilisi.
	www.bankwatch.org /press/2004/press01.html (558 words)

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