28/12/2015
The FSB, or Russian Security Service, in Russian-occupied Crimea have tried to force a Crimean Tatar to collaborate with them using not only threats against the man’s wife and children, but also physical torture.
Mustafa Dzhemiliev, veteran Crimean Tatar leader, Ukrainian MP and President’s...
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04/08/2015
Crimean Tatars called for “international intervention” against the Russian occupation of their homeland on Sunday.
In a statement issued at the end of a two-day meeting in Turkish capital Ankara, the forum of 184 Crieman Tatar groups from 12 countries said the freedoms and rights of their...
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03/08/2015
Ukraine has stepped up to establish a troop of Muslims, leader of Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Abdülcemil Dzhemilev, said on Aug. 3.
The troops will be deployed in the Kherson region on the Crimean border and would monitor transportation of goods and people between Ukraine and the peninsula, he said...
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25/04/2015
In the Crimea, the only Crimean Tatar TV channel has stopped broadcasting based on Russian authorities’ refusal to renew its license. The station, ATR, which broadcast in the Tatar language to what officials say was an audience of 4 million people in Crimea and beyond, went off the air on April 1,...
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26/03/2015
Like Stalin, Putin views Crimea's Tatars as a threat, and is sowing fear in the peninsula's population, to help facilitate their ethnic cleansing, Refat Chubarov told EurActiv.
On a visit to Brussels, the leader of the Crimean Tatar national movement in Ukraine, and worldwide, called the annexation...
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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...
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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...
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11/12/2014
SARY-SU, CRIMEA – Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, armed men have shown up frequently to search the cinder-block houses, mosque and school in Sary-Su, a settlement of Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority that has long suffered from discrimination in the peninsula, which is its historic...
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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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06/12/2014
Opponents of Russia's annexation are being abducted and killed amid reports of escalating human rights abuses.
Simferopol, Crimea - The men who abducted Seiran Zinetdinov must have been really tough. The bald, bull-necked and burly 33-year-old emanated the self-confidence of a man who has seen...
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