Recently, activists of the Crimean Tatar and Tatar NGOs of Germany expressed their anxiety about the fate of their compatriots in Crimea and Tatarstan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany. This was reported to the QHA news agency by the Foreign Relations Division of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people.
Particularly, as it was specified in the division, the initiators of the appeal “We became anxious” were invited to Berlin, to the Foreign Ministry of Germany, to meet with Dr. Peter Kettner (reviewer for policy on human rights and humanitarian aids), Jan Kantortschik (Chief of the Division on the Council of Europe) and an employee of the Foreign Ministry who supervises the Ukraine’s issues.
The leader of the Crimean Tatar clannishness in Germany Cheli Osman, Co-chairperson of the Board of the Union of Tatars in Germany ‘Tatarlar Deutschland’ and editor-in-chief of the 'AlTaBash' magazine Venera Vagizova, President of the Society for Eastern Europe Ildar Harisov, the Board Chairman of Intercultural Society Tamğa and expert on Turkic peoples of the Society for Assistance to Populations at risk Mieste Hotopp-Riecke as well as leader of the Tatar-Bashkir cultural centre Rais Halilov were invited to the meeting.
During the meeting, Cheli Osman and Miste Hotopp-Rice made a speech with the wishes to organize a meeting of the delegation of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people, headed by its Chairman Mustafa Djemilev as well as official representatives of the Ukrainian state with the authorized representatives of the Government of Germany. According to them, issues of German participation for comprehensive assistance for the Crimean Tatar people for their resettlement and rebirth on their Homeland could be discussed at such meeting.
All activists stressed that they are not politicians but they are concerned about the fate of their compatriots in Tatarstan and Crimea and they would like to assist to establish contacts as well to mutual understanding and provide information on the situation of their compatriots.
In turn, representatives of the German Foreign Ministry emphasized the importance and role of the European institutions, specifically authorized to settle the problems in the field of minority rights and peoples with cultural identity.
'The participants of the meeting agreed on further cooperation on issues of human rights and the rights of peoples' – was concluded in Milli Majlis’s division.
As QHA reported, earlier activists of a number of NGOs that united the Crimean Tatars and Tatars living in Germany, had initiated to draw the attention of the Germany’s authorities and the German public to the human rights abuses in Russia and Ukraine.
The reason for these initiatives has served long protest of the Crimean Tatars near in front of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the hunger strike of its participants as well as the discriminatory actions of the Russian authorities on the spheres of education in mother tongue, aimed essentially to the full assimilation of the ‘small’ peoples.
By QHA
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