On May 18, 1944, Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central Asia, with up to 46% dying en route or in exile ...

There are currently 221 citizens of Ukraine in Russian prisons, 134 of them are Crimean Tatars, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said on the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of Crimea. "All ...

Elina Novokhatska at the ‘Memorial to the Genocide of the Crimean Tatars’ in Kyiv. Aqmescit is the native name of her hometown, Simferopol. Photo: Bradley Stafford. Elina Novokhatska was born in 1998 ...

The leader of the Crimean Tatars added that at first, he thanked Putin for the reception (Dzhemilev was on a visit to Moscow in March 2014 but did not meet with Putin) because he was received ...

At the outset of Ukraine’s independence, it was already clear how important this partnership would become for Ukraine’s indigenous people, the Crimean Tatars. However, February has also become a ...