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Crimean Tatars in Ukraine commemorate russia's deportation of their entire population from their homeland from the 18th-20th May 1944.
2024 is the 80th anniversary of Stalin's ethnic cleansing of Crimea.
Sources:
The Kyiv Post
The Atlantic Council
OSCE
Today, May 18, marks the 80th anniversary of the forced removal of the Crimean Tatars from their native Crimea by the Soviet authorities. This deportation is called Sürgünlik.
Now, in occupied by russia Crimea, the Crimean Tatars are once again suffering from repression. Their homes are being searched, they are being arrested, their culture is being destroyed. Ukraine is doing everything possible to defeat this evil. Because this evil must be defeated. Free nations must be free.
They are silent because it is about Muslims.
My favourite facts about crimean tatars:
The first ever institution of higher education on the territory of modern Ukraine was founded in Crimea: it was medrese of Khan Uzbek, founded in 1333. Currently only ruins remain of the building.
Crimean tatar women were the first in the islamic world to get the rigt to vote.
In 1917, the first Crimean tatar Kurultay (something alike to democratically elected parilament) included women.
Moscow used to pay tribute to the Crimean Khanate :)
In 2021, Örnek, the traditional crimean tatar orniament, was included in the UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. (Learn more here and look at the beautiful examples)
One of the most prominent human rights' activists on the territory of USSR was a crimean tatar Mustafa Abdülcemil oğlu Cemilev. He spent 15 years in prisons for this. He would later become the head of Mejlis (the highest governmental organ of crimean tatars) and is currently a member of ukrainian parliament.
2016 Eurovision winner, Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova, better known by her stage name Jamala, is a crimean tatar.
Maidan, which is the general word with which ukrainian call the anti-governmental protests, is a crimean tatar word.
Cheburek is a national crimean tatar dish.
