On 13 November, during the celebration of Mustafa Dzhemilev’s 75th anniversary, Deputy Mufti Edgar Devlikamov awarded him on behalf of Mufti of RAMU “Umma" Said Ismagilov.
— On the occasion of the 75th birthday, let me congratulate you on behalf of the Musti and the Ukrainian Muslims, and read out...
Ahmad Tamim belongs to Islamic School, which doesn't predominate among Muslims of Ukraine, - Mustafa Dzhemilev
Shortly before visiting Turkey, the leader of the Crimean Tatars, Commissioner for the President of Ukraine of the Crimean Tatar People, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Mustafa...
On 25 July 2018, a session of Dnipro City Counsil adopted a decision to return the building of Katerynoslav Jami Mosque to the local Muslim community. The Mosque was confiscated by the bolsheviks in early XX, after Ukraine was occupied by Soviet Russia. The only remaining issue is to wait until the...
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...
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Abduldzhemil Kirimoglu has slammed Russia’s suspension of minority’s supreme executive commission.
A Russia-backed prosecutor in Crimea suspended the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Wednesday to “prevent violations of the federal laws.”
Addressing World Crimean Tatar...
For centuries Muslims have been an integral part of Ukrainian society, but they also remained a quiet, little-noticed part until the momentous events of the EuroMaidan Revolution and Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014-15.
Many Muslims were active participants in the EuroMaidan Revolution, and...
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...
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...
Mr.Mustafa Dzhemilev, Crimean Tatar People’s Affairs Commissioner for the President of Ukraine, gave EUR 100,000 of his Solidarity Prize to relatives of the Heavenly Hundred.
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The very existence of the Crimean indigenous people is under threat, the Crimean Tatar leaders assured the delegates of UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples held on September 22-23 in New York.On their part, Ukrainian authorities also reported flagrant violation of the Crimean Tatars’ rights....
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday ‘rehabilitating’ Crimea’s Tatar’s and other ethnic minority groups, i.e., officially clearing them of the political crimes they were accused of during the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. The move is a clear attempt at courting the...
