Originally taken to Sochi, he was soon transferred to a hospital in Sukhumi, where he remained until reuniting with his family in Agdam. He then moved to Krasnodar, where the Crimean Regional Committee in exile was located before returning to Crimea as soon as Nazi forces were expelled from the peninsula in April 1944. Upon return to Crimea he was appointed first deputy commissar of regional agriculture and started to draw up a plan for development of local agriculture in the war-torn peninsula, he did not remain in Crimea for very long; since he was a Crimean Tatar, he was deported from Crimea on 18 May 1944 and sent to Central Asia. Initially he was to the Pakhta Uchun Kurash collective farm, but he was allowed to move to a state farm in Ferghana where his wife and children were deported to. In exile he worked in agriculture, eventually getting a job at nursery, where he developed several pear varieties.