The Mejlis, the representative body of the Crimean Tatar people, will reject any international recognition of Russian-occupied Crimea as Russian territory, Refat Chubarov, the body's chairman ...

Tatars once dominated Crimea, but these days, the majority of the peninsula’s population are ethnic Russians and Ukrainians, ...

There is no crime more terrible on occupied territory than identifying as Ukrainian", and if parents won’t be intimidated ...

When Crimea voted with the rest of Ukraine's regions in the 1991 independence referendum, the Tatar vote was instrumental in attaining a narrow pro-independence majority.

The Crimean Tatars were deported to Central Asia in cattle cars, with little food or water, and almost half died en route. “One day won’t be enough, ...

Mustafa Dzhemilev, the longtime leader of the Crimean Tatar people, speaks on the 80th anniversary of his people's brutal deportation under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. He discusses how Crimean ...

"The Russian Federation actively, without wasting time, destroyed all dissent, activism, journalism, and justice in Crimea. .

The history of the Crimean Tatars has taught them to tread carefully. Periods of persecution and exodus, mainly at Russian hands, have characterized the Muslim ethnic minority’s story from at ...

Most Crimean Tatars boycotted a referendum in 2014 which posed the question of rejoining Russia or restoring Crimea's status as part of Ukraine - Crimea's Moscow-backed leaders said 97% of voters ...

Russia, in global politics, tries to present itself as a defender of Muslims, but in reality, its rhetoric and actions are ...

It symbolises the resistance of the Crimean Tatar people to all those who have ever tried to destroy their culture. Every year on 26 June, the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag is celebrated in Ukraine.