<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/9997431" mdate="2014-01-05 00:00:00"> <author>Kenan Cetinkaya and Semanur Kodan</author> <title>Ahiska Turks in Philadelphia Keeping Cultural Identity and Religion in a Multicultural Environment</title> <pages>1680 - 1685</pages> <year>2012</year> <volume>6</volume> <number>6</number> <journal>International Journal of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9997431</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/66</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Ahiska Turks in the Philadelphia area maintain a very complex, cultural heritage which they have carried with them for centuries from Georgia to Uzbekistan then Russia and lastly to the USA. While facing very severe conditions in the last half of the last century, their passion for their language, religion and tradition allowed them to keep their cultural identity. In the paper, the Ahiska Turks&amp;amp;rsquo; sorrowful story is reviewed and their struggle with keeping their identity in a multicultural environment of the USA is examined in the context of the Philadelphia area. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 66, 2012</index> </article>