Crimean Tatars (Crimean Tatar: qırımtatarlar, къырымтатарлар) or Crimeans (Crimean Tatar: qırımlar, къырымлар or qırımlılar, къырымлылар), are a Turkic ethnic group and nation who are an indigenous people of Crimea.The formation and ethnogenesis of Crimean Tatars occurred during the 13th–17th centuries, uniting Cumans, who appeared in Crimea in the ...

The Crimean Tatar language (qırımtatar tili, къырымтатар тили, tatar tĭlĭ, tatarşa, kırım tatarşa), also called Crimean language (qırım tili, къырым тили), is a Kipchak Turkic language spoken in Crimea and the Crimean Tatar diasporas of Uzbekistan, Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, as well as small communities in the United States and Canada.

May 18, 2022 · If a conflict were to arise with Turkey in the Black Sea, Crimean Tatars, who have ethnic ties to Turks and share a common history with them from the Ottoman Empire, would pose a threat as an internal enemy. As the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of the 20th century, Crimean Tatars started returning to their homeland.

May 06, 2022 · A Crimean Tatar combat medic who is tending to the wounded defenders and civilians at Mariupol’s Azovstal steel mill made a public appeal to …

Tatar, also spelled Tartar, any member of several Turkic-speaking peoples that collectively numbered more than 5 million in the late 20th century and lived mainly in west-central Russia along the central course of the Volga River and its tributary, the Kama, and thence east to the Ural Mountains. The Tatars are also settled in Kazakhstan and, to a lesser extent, in western Siberia.

May 18, 2022 · Today, 78 years since the mass forcible deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet authorities, history is repeating itself as the nation is still unable to live peacefully in their homeland. That’s according to British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons, Ukrinform reports. She recalled that ...

May 18, 2022 · Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said this on his Telegram channel on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Genocide against the Crimean Tatar People, Ukrinform reports. "In 1944, the Soviet regime forcibly deported about 200,000 Crimean Tatars. More than 30,000 of them died of starvation, disease and exhaustion. 70 years later, …

May 18, 2022 · “The Crimean Tatars undermine Russia’s perception that Crimea is Russia, because they are a people with their own culture, they are a recognised national group in Ukraine. Russia calls it, this Tatar community, a hydrogen bomb,” she added. Western countries must not forget about the repressions suffered by Crimean Tatars, she said.

May 20, 2022 · Russia is subjecting Crimean Tartars to the same repressive policies of the Soviet era, the leader of the Crimean Tatars said Thursday. Mustafa Abdulcemil Kirimoglu, who is also a …

May 18, 2022 · The Crimean Tatars, ethnically a Turkic group, were deported to various regions within the Soviet territories, in particular Siberia and Uzbekistan. Almost half of …