Really think you need to read it again “ Here the Cossacks moved south into the Caucaus all the way to Azerbajian today, capturing areas belonging to Turkic tribes and bloody battles with Circassians, Chechens, Dagestanis and so on. Half a million people of these turkic tribes were driven into the Ottoman empire in just a few years but the ethnic cleansing did not stop the bloodshed at all. Indeed this fighting continued into the 20th century when the Bolshevik government was forced to relocate their very own instrument, the Terek Cossacks, in order to reduce tension in the south.”

Bloody battles- what do you think this means?

Ethnic cleansing -the focus of that sentence is driving people into the Ottoman Empire.

“Did not stop the bloodshed”- you think this means warm relations?

I spent 14 years in the Caucasus, I have many Circassian friends in Adygea and also the diaspora. They even tried to teach me that very difficult language. Misconstrue things in a brief blog all you like.