16/11/2016
The II International Forum of Religion and Peace was held in Batumi (Georgia) recently, which was attended by religious leaders and human rights activists from around the world. In addition to the representatives of the host country, the forum was attended by the delegations from Turkey, Iran,...
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12/10/2016
The official prosecution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, that moved to mainland Ukraine after the peninsula was annexed by Russia, has resumed the criminal investigation of the forcible deportation of Tatars from the peninsula, conducted by the Soviet Union back in 1944.
This is according to...
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29/09/2016
Whatever the changes they are facing now, it’s nothing more than a brief episode in the long history of the indigenous people of Crimea. Mighty empires have been clashing for Crimea since ancient times and each new winner believes he has secured his foot on this land forever...
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09/08/2016
The media reports a lot about acts of terrorism, committed by Islamists, or ‘so-called’ Islamists recently. The tragic news come from many parts of the world — France, the USA, Turkey, the Middle East. The profane reader or observer might get the impression that all Muslims are abnormally...
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08/08/2016
When people face the regular set of cliché about their social group in the media, the reaction can be very different. Someone is angry and makes a vow not to talk to journalists. Someone complains that "journalists are incorrigible: give them a stir, or they will make the stir by themselves"....
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08/07/2016
Mykhailo Yakubovych is known as translator of Quran into Ukrainian language, as well as the author of "Philosophical thought of the Crimean Khanate" and "Islam in Ukraine. History and Modern Times ", which has been released in the scientific digest "Al-Qalam". He is orientalist, researcher of the...
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29/05/2016
ON May 14th Crimea’s indigenous Tatars sat glued to their screens, watching as Jamala, a Ukrainian singer of Tatar descent, won the Eurovision song contest. Jamala’s song “1944” commemorated Stalin’s brutal deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar population. For Russia’s government, the song was an...
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27/05/2016
If somebody makes the list of mosques that existed in the southern regions of Ukraine, no doubt that it will include more than one thousand Muslim religious places. Most of them were destroyed in the Russian-Turkish wars and the following annexation of territories that previously belonged to the...
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26/05/2016
The Ukrainian Parliament is calling on the U.N. and the E.U. to recognise the mass expulsion of Crimean Tatars, organised by the Soviet Union in 1944, as a genocide of the ethnicity.
The country's lawmakers say, the world needs to condemn "the past and present crimes", committed by the Russian...
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26/05/2016
Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar Muslims have persevered through centuries of persecution, including an alleged Soviet-sponsored genocide in 1944. With Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimea, the Tatars are now facing renewed persecution in the form of government crackdowns and forced exile. Special...
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