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Crimean Tatars yearn for homeland one year after Russian annexation

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...

Crimean Tatar leaders to run for Ukrainian parliament 18/09/2014 Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Jemilev and the head of Crimean Tatar Mejlis Refat Chubarov will run for election into the Ukrainian parliament on October 26 representing the political bloc led by President Petro Poroshenko. According to bloc leader Yuriy Lutsenko, the Crimean Tatar leaders have urged...	Crimean Tatar Leaders Had To Celebrate Eid In Kyiv This Year 06/08/2014 Ukrainian Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr - the feast accomplishing the month of fasting during Ramadan. More than 2,000 believers came to the mosque at Kyiv Islamic Cultural Centre in order to perform the festive prayer together - not only local Muslims, but some diplomats from Muslim countries and...
How History Is Repeating Itself For Crimea’s Most Persecuted Minority 08/07/2014 When Refat Chubarov, a political leader of Crimea’s indigenous Tatar population, attempted to cross the border into his homeland on Saturday, he was met by squads of Russian riot police and a prosecutor who handed down a mandate banning him from the Black Sea peninsula for five years. While this is...	The situation of Crimean Tatars was discussed in Paris 12/06/2014 A colloquium took place at the French National institute of foreign languages and civilizations. Its main topic entitled, `The fate of the Crimean peninsula`. Mari-Sibil de Vien, the head of the Commission of International relations of the Institute and Philip de Surmen, former ambassador of France...
Mejlis sees new Crimean constitution as unacceptable to Crimean Tatar people 14/04/2014 The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people sees the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea as unacceptable to the Crimean Tatars, as it does not have any rule that would guarantee the preservation and development of the Crimean Tatar people as an indigenous people on the peninsula. A statement released...

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