Crimean Tartars

“What was done to you in 1944 has a name. It was genocide”

The words above were spoken by a great Ukrainian Petro Grigorenko when he addressed Crimean Tatars exiled in Moscow in 1968, almost 25 years after the Deportation. Nearly 50 years later, Crimean Tatars are once again exiled or persecuted, and Grigorenko’s advice on demanding their rights and...

A Taste of Crimea Far From the Frontline 27/11/2015 Crimea has seemed like an exotic place to me since I was a child. It was the land of sunshine, sea, and mountains; most of all, it was the land of the Tatars. They looked different from the rest of us Ukrainians. They spoke a different language, belonged to a different religion, and cooked a...	Crimean Tatars yearn for homeland one year after Russian annexation 19/03/2015 Before the arrival of Imperial Russian troops in Crimea in 1783, Bakhchisarai was the capital of a Tatar kingdom. Today’s tense mood, one year after the Russian Federation’s annexation of the peninsula, has brought back old fears among Crimean Tatars, who make up around 13% of its population. In...
Armed Offensive against Independent Crimean Tatar TV Channel 27/01/2015 Monday’s armed search of TV ATR was the most dramatic, but not the only offensive against the only Crimean Tatar TV channel since Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014 and appears part of mounting efforts to intimidate, silence or banish Crimean Tatars. “How will the regime look Crimean Tatars in the...	Masked militants raid Crimean Tatar ATR Channel 26/01/2015 Masked men have surrounded the building of Crimea Tatar ATR Channel, ATR journalist Shevket Namatullaev wrote in Facebook. The militants are searching the building. The militants aim to take Computer server of the channel, which includes video materials of Feb 26, when thousands of Crimean Tatars...
Do Crimean Tatars need to hurry to build a mosque in Lviv? 17/12/2014 Before building a mosque in Lviv, Crimean Tatars have to integrate into a new environment so as not to cause tension among the local population. Mufti of the Spiritual Directorate of Ukrainian Muslims ‘Ummah’ Said Ismahilov was reported as saying this on December 10, at the interfaith...	Ukrainian envoy says Crimean Tatars expect Turkey’s help 06/12/2014 Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Sergiy Korsunsky has said Ukraine is housing Crimean Tatars who escaped the Russian invasion of the peninsula and called on Turkey to increase support to the Tatars. The ambassador stressed in a recent interview with the Cihan news agency that Crimean Tatars have been...

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