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In [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], the last known tiger was killed in 1922 near [[Tbilisi]], after taking domestic livestock.<ref name=Ognev>{{cite book|last=Ognev|first=S. I.|year=1935|title=Mammals of the U.S.S.R. and adjacent countries|volume=2| chapter=Carnivora (Fissipedia) |publisher=National Science Foundation|location=Washington D. C.}}</ref><ref name=Nowell/>
In China, tigers disappeared from the [[Tarim River]] basin in [[Xinjiang]] in the 1920s.<ref name=Ognev/><ref name=Nowell/>
In [[Azerbaijan]], the last known tiger was killed in 1932; however, tigers were allegedly sighted in later years in the [[Talysh Mountains]]
In Turkey, a pair of tigers was allegedly killed in the area of [[Selçuk]] in 1943.<ref name=Kirk2002>{{cite journal |first=K. |last=Johnson |title=The Status of mammalian carnivores in Turkey |journal=Endangered Species Update 19 |issue=6 |pages=232–237 |date=2002 |url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/91257/ESUnovdeconline2002.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}}</ref> Several tiger skins found in the early 1970s near [[Uludere, Şırnak|Uludere]] indicated the presence of a tiger population in eastern Turkey.<ref>{{cite journal |first=T. |last=Baytop |year=1974 |title=La presence du vrai tigre, ''Panthera tigris'' (Linne 1758) en Turquie |journal=Säugetierkundliche Mitteilungen |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=254–256}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=H. |last=Kumerloeve |year=1974 |title=Zum Vorkommen des Tigers auf türkischem Boden |journal=Säugetierkundliche Mitteilungen |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=348–350}}</ref> Questionnaire surveys conducted in this region revealed that one to eight tigers were killed each year until the mid-1980s, and that tigers likely had survived in the region until the early 1990s. Due to lack of interest, in addition to security and safety reasons, no further field surveys were carried out in the area.<ref name=Can2004/>
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