The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.

Tatars also tried to use as much leftover food as possible, borrowing meat preservation methods from Ottoman culture, with goose and beef often salted and smoked outside rural buildings. Traditional ...

The tamga dates back to the Muslim dynasty that ruled Crimea as part of Ottoman Turkiye until Russia ... However, Moscow still singles out Tatars, whose community of 250,000 comprises only 12 ...

This is a phenomenon indeed, no similar example can be found in Europe. Islam in the Balkans appeared much later, after Ottoman Turkey's territorial takeovers. Tatars, who arrived in Poland as Muslims ...

The Ottoman and the Russian empires would clash ... Meanwhile, the Crimean Tatars declared their peninsula a democratic republic as the Russian Empire crumbled around them. The Russian Revolution ...

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

The United Nations General Assembly, the United States and many other countries condemned the annexation, and the U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia over its moves. Few countries ...