That’s the sentence Nariman Dzhelyal, a Crimean Tatar community ... justify the presence of the Russian army as ‘peacekeepers’,” Dzhelyal said. Tatars stayed away from altercations with ...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry released a statement on the 11th anniversary of the annexation of Ukraine’s autonomous Crimea ...

Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central ...

Turkey does not recognize the temporary occupation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia, but supports the sovereignty and ...

Rustem Virati, a 60-year-old Crimean Tatar who was imprisoned by the Russians for eight years, has died in a penal colony in the city of Dmitrovgrad, Russia’s Ulyanovsk Oblast. Source: Refat Chubarov, ...

Elina Novokhatska at the ‘Memorial to the Genocide of the Crimean Tatars’ in Kyiv. Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 ...

Riza Izetov, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist sentenced by a Russian court to 19 years in prison, has reported harsh detention conditions in the Yakutsk penal colony, where he has experienced ...

There are currently 221 citizens of Ukraine in Russian prisons, 134 of them are Crimean Tatars, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said on the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of Crimea. "All ...

SIMFEROPOL, August 17 /TASS/. Most Crimean Tatars are against returning the peninsula to Ukraine. The Federal Agency for the Affairs of Nationalities have outdated figures, which were relevant bac ...

According to the Russian official, Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov is the most popular regional political figure among Crimean Tatars MOSCOW, August 16. /TASS/. Almost half of Crimean ...