Today living in ten different countries, the Ahıska Turks have had to leave their lands and immigrate to different places. As a consequence of these migrations they did compulsorily or sometimes voluntarily as in the case of their migration to the US, they have encountered different cultures and languages/dialects. Some of the Ahıska Turks, today, live in the US. Since they have been living in the US for more than a decade, they have adjusted to the way of life in the US culturally and linguistically alike. Thanks to their previous experiences, they have learned English and become bilingual/multilingual. The aim of this study was to measure the language dominance among the Ahıska Turks. 125 Ahıska Turks (nfemale = 42 and nmale = 83), living in the United States of America, Ohio, consisted of the sample of the survey. The Bilingual Language Profile was employed to measure the language dominance and the SPSS was used to analyze the data obtained. According to the findings, the level of education, employment, age, language use, language proficiency, and language attitude of the participants were significant for the dominant language. The results were discussed within the framework of the existing literature on language dominance and suggestions for the Ahıska Turks living in the United States of America were put forward.

Ahıska Türkleri 1944 yılındaki sürgünden sonra bugün dünyanın çeşitli bölgelerinedağılmış olarak yaşamlarını sürdürmektedirler. Kendi vatanlarından uzakta yaşayanAhıska Türklerinin diğer Türk toplulukları gibi bir edebiyatı da bulunmamaktadır.Ancak, dünyanın farklı yerlerinde de yaşasalar bulundukları bölgelerde az da olsaedebî eserler veren Ahıska Türkleri de bulunmaktadır. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nde sonderece önemli kademelerde görevde bulunmuş Ali Fuat Azgur da bunlardan biridir.Asıl mesleğinin yanında şiirler de kaleme alan Azgur hemen hemen her konuda şiiryazmış, yaşadıklarını, hissettiklerini şiire dökmüştür. Azgur'un bu anlamda en önemliözelliği de aruz vezniyle şiirler yazmasıdır.Biz bu çalışmamızda hem bir asker hem de bir bürokrat olarak görev yapmış AliFuat Azgur'un şairlik yönüne vurgu yaparak onun "Aruz'un Meltemiyle" adlı şiirkitabında yer alan şiirlerini inceleyeceğiz.Meskhetian Turks have been scattered on different parts of the world since theexile in 1944. Since they live far from their homeland, they do not have a literatureof their own unlike other Turkic peoples. There are, however, a few Meskhetian Turkswho have had literary works. Ali Fuat Azgur, who served at important positions inTurkey, is one of those people. In addition to being a soldier, a high judge, Azgur also wrote poems on almost anything he witnessed or felt. His most distinct feature, perhaps,was his using prosody in his poems.In this study, I will examine the poems of Ali Fuat Azgur in his book "Aruz'unMeltemiyle", emphasizing his poetics.