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who worked in Batumi in the early 1900s. In 1935, he became the head of the
Adjarian section of the Writers’ Union of Georgia. During the Great Purges, however, he was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason and executed later that year. His family members were also repressed. Abashidze was
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took control of Batumi from the
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and advocated pro-Georgian orientation among the
Adjarian Muslims. In 1908, the Russian persecutions forced him to flee to the Ottoman Empire where he was arrested. Back in Adjara in 1913, he was imprisoned by the
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in 1878, Georgian intellectuals launched a campaign aimed at reincorporation of local Muslim
Georgian community into the Georgian society. Mehmed’s father, Prince Ibrahim Abashidze, sided with
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in 1883. Born in
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Abashidze renewed his campaign calling for the incorporation of Adjara into Georgia with an autonomous status and criticizing the
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politician, writer and public benefactor. An eminent leader of
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