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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.
Crimean Tatars, who numbered around a quarter of a million in Ukraine's last official census in 2001, can do little more than watch, wait and hope.
"Crimea will remain with Russia," President Donald Trump said as he set the agenda for talks to end of the Ukraine war. But what do the indigenous inhabitants of the peninsula, the Crimean Tatars ...
How exactly do you look for a civilization that never existed? Usually, civilizations leave behind something: art, artifacts, ...
Tatars historically don’t put sugar in tea, but eat it only as a bite so as not to spoil the taste of the tea. “ Kunak ashy – kara karshi ” or “Guest treat is mutual.” Hospitality has been considered ...
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 ...
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 ...
About 100,000 Crimean Tatars died as part of a massive deportation of these people by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards the end of the second world war.
May 18 marks a painful anniversary for Crimea’s Tatars, descendants of nearly 200,000 victims of a mass deportation by Soviet authorities over a three-day period in 1944.
Tatars from the Caucasus, halftone print, published in 1899 Tatars from the Caucasus. Halftone print after a photograph (1885) by Mor (Maurice) de Déchy (Hungarian mountaineer, writer and photographer ...
Crimean Tatar rights have historically been violated, but their leadership's continued ideological alliances with Ukrainian right-wing groups will cause more hardship ...