"The Russian Federation actively, without wasting time, destroyed all dissent, activism, journalism, and justice in Crimea. .

Many Indigenous Crimean Tatars—soldiers and veterans—are now on the front lines, defending Ukraine’s sovereignty. Nearly every Crimean Tatar soldier fighting today descends from families deported in ...

Crimean Tatars Safeguard Traditions in Ukraine in Hope of Return to Homeland By Anastasiia Malenko and Felix Hoske KYIV (Reuters) - With their ancestral homeland at the heart of future peace talks ...

KYIV, May 13 (Reuters) - With their ancestral homeland at the heart of future peace talks with Russia, Crimean Tatars are fighting to keep their language and practices alive in Ukraine, teaching ...

After a visit to Crimea, Turkish Rights Activists met with Crimean Tatar NGOs and media to discuss the community’s language rights. Putin had promised that the Crimean Tatar language would become the ...

On 26 June 2015, Crimean Tatars celebrated the day of their national flag and despite rainy weather, they unfurled a giant Tatar flag in the centre of Simferopol, now a symbolic statement since the ...

<p>Yukhym Krykun, a noted Crimean researcher specializing in historic structures, has published a book fundamentally altering our current views on the peninsula. What architecture we can see now ...

After decades of Soviet authorities burning Islamic literature and shutting down Islamic schools, Crimean Tatars were deported in the hundreds of thousands to Central Asia and Siberia in 1944.

On the night of February 26-27, 2014, the Russian military seized the Verkhovna Rada and the Council of Ministers of Crimea (Qırım). Since then, the peninsula has been under Russian occupation.

And while the majority of Crimean Tatars remain in the occupied peninsula where their culture is suppressed, the presence of two national minorities among Ukraine's top military leadership is a ...

One of the most overlooked parts of Ukraine is its diversity. The Crimean Tatars – a national minority native to Crimea and recognized as an indigenous people of Ukraine – are a perfect example.

The Crimean Tatar self-governing assembly, the Mejlis, of which Mustafa Dzhemilev was chair, was banned, as were public references to the Stalinist deportations. After 2014, thousands of Tatars ...