A Ukrainian of Crimean Tatar descent, Umerova, 26, was captured by Russian forces in 2022 while trying to reach occupied Crimea to visit her then-sick father, who had cancer. She spent almost two ...

An executive body representing Crimea’s Tatar minority has vowed to oppose any international recognition of the Moscow-occupied Ukrainian peninsula as part of Russia. The development comes amid ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday lambasted President Nikos Christodoulides for “provocative” statements the latter had made about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ...

The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People categorically rejects any proposals or actions aimed at recognizing as Russian the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the ...

When Russia first invaded Ukraine and Moscow soldiers entered Crimea in 2014, Ukraine’s foreign partners were asking Crimean authorities not to "provoke Russia," Chairman of the Crimean Tatar ...

In Ukraine, memories of Russia’s annexation are fresh and resentments run high, leaving the country’s president few choices on the latest American peace plan. By Andrew E. Kramer and Maria ...

Since then, Moscow has been actively reshaping the peninsula's ethnic composition, bringing nearly a million Russians into the occupied area and forcing Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, indigenous ...

For some 300 years, Crimea was under the control of Crimean Tatars, who are recognized as the peninsula’s indigenous people. After the 18th-century Russian annexation, the Tatar population lived ...

Ukraine's military said on Wednesday it had hit a Russian long-range drone production site in Tatarstan, damaging the final assembly line. In the course of the three-year-old war, Russia has been ...

Trump’s statements were criticized by Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar community, indigenous people of Crimea, who in February 2014 clashed with a covert Russian army in Simferopol during large protests, while ...

Putin has called Crimea “a sacred place,” and has prosecuted those who publicly argue it is part of Ukraine — particularly Crimean Tatars, who strongly opposed the annexation. What happened ...