Hemshin peoples
The Hamshenis (Armenian: Համշէնցիներ,  Hamshents’iner) are an people of Armenian origin who traditionally lived in the Rize and Artvin provinces in the Turkey. They are Armenian in origin, and were originally Christian and members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, but over the centuries evolved into a distinct group and converted to Sunni Islam after the conquest of the Ottomans of the region during the second half of the 15th century.