The Crimean
Tatars, together with their Turkish brothers, are looking forward to a speedy resolution of this difficult situation," the delegates of the Simferopol meeting said in a resolution, Sputnik News reported.
In the 4th century AD, Emperor Attila of the European Huns conquered the Crimean peninsula and ushered in various Turkic groups, including the Huns, the Khazars, the Bulgarians, the Pechenegs, the Kipchaks, the Mongols and the
Tatars, which eventually constituted the majority of the local population.
Crimean
Tatars attend a memorial ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the deportation of
Tatars from Crimea, near a Mosque in Simferopol, on May 18, 2014.
BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea Thu May 15, 2014(Reuters) - Seventy years after their families' mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean
Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland's new Russian authorities or resist them?
BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea, Jumada I 28, 1435, Mar 29, 2014, SPA -- The Crimean
Tatars' assembly voted on Saturday in favour of seeking "ethnic and territorial autonomy" for the indigenous minority on the Black Sea peninsula annexed from Kiev by Moscow, Reuters reported.
the Russians settled there only after deportation of the
Tatars after the World War II.
Name of
Tatar organization that seeks
Tatar membership in the United Nations: the World Congress of
Tatars, an organization created 20 years ago to link Tatarstan with ethnic
Tatars living outside the borders of the Middle Volga republic.
During the meeting, Kirimoglu said that Crimean
Tatars still struggled with the socio-economic problems that had arisen following the community's return to its homeland.
Crimea in particular is host to a number of distinct groups including Crimean
Tatars, ethnic Russians, Ukrainian as well as a number of smaller groups who are not particularly well integrated even at the local level.
The manuscript is thus a tine example of the religious literature of the
Tatars, who started to settle in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the fourteenth century and formed small Muslim communities in what is today West Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus.
Five and a half million
Tatars comprise the largest minority group in Russia and, in distinct contrast to Muslims living in the Caucasus, view themselves as the very embodiment of "Russia's Islam."
