Speaking at the Second World Congress of Crimean Tatars in Ankara on 1 August 2015, Crimean Tatar veteran leader Mustafa Dzhemilev said that the Crimean Tatars are facing another occupation and a worse repression than during the Soviet...
Every nation has its own iconic date consolidating people, and these dates are often linked with independence and liberation. However, the Crimean Tatars’ special date is connected with tragic events. The deportation in 1944 changed the...
Until recently, little was known about the Crimean Tatars or their historic homeland, Crimea. These turkic people’s history goes back to the 12th century. Their modern history, under Soviet rule, is one of deportation, exile and loss....
Mustafa Dzhemilev, the legendary Crimean Tatar human rights activist, could receive his own documentary film The studio Alif Films and the civic initiative Crimea SOS are launching a project to create the feature Documentary...
Mustafa Dzhemilev, the longtime leader of the Crimean Tatars, says that he is part of an effort to create a new information network in Crimea and to have Kyiv television broadcast one or two hours a day to the occupied peninsula in order...
Kyiv – The so-called Crimean self-defense has compiled lists of representatives of local mejlises (representative body of the Crimean Tatars, indigenous people of Ukraine) to be “liquidated.” Mustafa Dzhemilev, the national leader of...
(photo from left to right – Dzhemilev, Chubarov) On the morning of August 9 at a checkpoint on the administrative border between mainland Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula, FSB representatives banned Ismet Yuksel and his family from...
The leader of the Crimean Tatar nation Mustafa Dzhemilev intends to plead with the European Human Rights court should the occupational government of Crimea fail to free him from jail. Dzhemilev stated this at a press conference in...
The leader of the Crimean-Tatar people, member of the Ukrainian Parliament Mustafa Dzhemilev expressed his hope that the statement made by the new President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko regarding the return of Crimea to Ukraine becomes...
On May 17, a rally commemorating the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars was held in Kyiv. The event ‘Light a fire in your heart’ took place on Mykhailivska square with the participation of the Crimean...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
