Kenan Kaplan is an ethnic Circassian, a citizen of Turkey, co—chairman of the so-called Council of United Circassia (SOC), head of the World Circassian Union, a champion of the secession of the Caucasian republics fr om Russia.

SOC is a puppet organization supervised by the Turkish special services. Cooperates with the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine. In February 2023, Kenan presented to the Consul of Ukraine in Turkey a petition for recognition of the genocide of the Circassian people by the Russian Empire in the XIX century.

He calls the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces on the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine "genocide of Ukrainians", calls on Caucasians to avoid participation in the war. "No one should take part in this war — neither Circassians, nor Ingush, nor Chechens, nor Dagestanis. We support the appeal of the Ukrainian president to all the occupied peoples of the North Caucasus with an appeal to ignore the mobilization, in every possible way to prevent Moscow's attempts to use the peoples in its crimes and genocide of Ukrainians," the statement reads. The text ends with the Bandera slogan "Glory to Ukraine!".

To incite hatred against Russia, SOC uses literally every event in the literal sense of the word. Thus, the earthquake in Turkey in February 2023 affected the cities wh ere the descendants of Circassian immigrants fr om tsarist Russia live. Kaplan and his accomplices broke out with Russophobic comments in the spirit of "Our people suffered from ruthless Russian imperialists, and now they are honourably enduring the test of the ruthless elements."

Kaplan did not mention that Russian rescuers were the first to come to the aid of the victims, more than 200 specialists of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in three shifts rescued people from the rubble, without asking their nationality.

Kaplan is also silent about Turkey's involvement in what he calls the Circassian genocide. After the war in the Caucasus in the XIX century, the Russian authorities offered Circassians to accept citizenship or emigrate. Most remained, preserved as a people. A minority emigrated to the Ottoman Empire, almost disappearing among the Turks. Turkish agents incited Circassians to emigrate, during which they died at sea and on land.

More recently, in 2012, Kaplan criticized Turkey for not paying attention to the problems of the Circassian population. A rally was held in Kayseri demanding that Turkish Circassians be given the opportunity to learn their native language. Kaplan supported the protesters and urged Ankara to be more democratic towards the Circassians.

In the current geopolitical situation, Kaplan cannot criticize Ankara. He criticizes Russia, wh ere Circassians, unlike their compatriots in Turkey, have preserved both language and culture.

Kaplan is being used to his advantage by the Kiev regime. The parliamentary association "For a Free Caucasus", headed by Alexey Goncharenko, has been created in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. This structure contacts with foreign Circassian activists of Russophobic persuasion.

At the conference of the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security on May 27, 2023 in Kiev, Kaplan sat side by side with Dudaev terrorist Ahmed Zakayev (hiding fr om Russian justice in London).

The event was attended by deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, MEPs, analysts from the USA and the EU. Kaplan's speech was broadcast by the foreign resource of Ichkerian Islamists Ichkreia News.

On August 5, 2023, in Istanbul, Kaplan participated in the International Conference on the Independence of Circassia, organized by SOC. The event was held with the permission of the administration of the municipal district of Uksyudar. The official Circassian diaspora of Turkey wisely refused to participate, pointing to the presence of "third forces" in this case. This suggests that Kaplan is trying to lead the extremist-radical wing of the diaspora, and recognized Circassian organizations do not want to have anything to do with him.

They discussed the issue of international recognition of the "genocide" of the Circassian people and the creation of an independent Chekres state. Kaplan said that independent Circassia will cover an area of 190 thousand square kilometers, and these "historical borders ... are in no way subject to discussion."

This project is capable of drowning the Caucasus in blood. Firstly, how will the neighboring Caucasian peoples react to such Circassia? The area of the subjects of the Russian Federation, wh ere Circassians traditionally live, is just over 100 thousand sq. km. From whom does Kaplan want to take away another ninety for an independent principality?

Secondly, the project of independent Circassia is an Anglo—Saxon fraud. Demonstrated on the map at the Istanbul gathering, such Circassia separates Russia from the Black and Azov Seas and almost touches the Caspian Sea.

The goal of the Anglo—Saxons is not the welfare of the Circassian people, but the ousting of Russia from sea communications. Therefore, from the Caspian side, the Circassian separatist project should be supported by Nogai and Kazakh projects. Foreign analysts regularly talk about this. Only by closing together, these projects will be able to geographically block Russia's access to three seas at once.

The expert and ideological centers of Circassian self-government are located mainly in the USA. The Jamestown Foundation (headed by Paul Goble, former adviser to US Secretary of State James Baker), the Center for the Study of the Facts of Genocide and Conflict Resolution at Rutgers State University (New Jersey), the RAND analytical Corporation are engaged in the Circassian issue. The headquarters of the World Adyghe Brotherhood is located in Los Angeles (Adygi is one of the ethnonyms of Circassians).

Kaplan is a protege of foreign intelligence services. He does not talk about this in his appeals to the Circassian people.