This grim tableau was the result of a centuries-long pattern. Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea from the Crimean Tatar Khanate in 1783, successive Russian regimes systematically eradicated ...

As the Tatar poet Şevqiy Bektöre wrote in 1922, ‘the whole world is a cemetery for Tatars.’” A Seditious and Sinister Tribe: The Crimean Tatars and their Khanate by Donald Rayfield, ...

Tatar citizens face arbitrary detention, surveillance, and killing at the hands of Russian authorities, as well as conscription into the Russian armed forces. Thousands have fled to unoccupied ...

Every year on 26 June, the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag is celebrated in Ukraine. This is a blue flag with a yellow coat of arms ... Tatars – taraq tamga – a symbol of state power, which was depicted ...

Russia's war against Ukraine began in Crimea. In February 2014, as the pro-Russian regime in Kyiv was killing protesters on the barricades of the EuroMaidan Revolution, thousands of Russian troops ...

Ukrayinske Radio, external launched its own project in the Crimean Tatar language in May 2022 on 100.7 FM and 549 kHz AM, ... in 1443 Crimea became the centre of a Tatar Khanate, ...

Under Greek and Roman influence for centuries, in 1443 Crimea became the centre of a Tatar Khanate, ... Crimean Tatar Mejlis. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.