While the names of Laz villages are in Laz, and those of Armenian villages are in Armenian, why are the names of Turkish villages in Greek? These are matters that require scrutiny. We observe similar situations in the Dadaş villages of Erzurum and the Ahıska villages of Artvin. Their common point is that they were Islamized after the 17th century. Indeed, why were there no Muslims in the 16th century in Erzurum, the homeland of the Turkmens?