Many Crimean Tatars left due to oppression and persecution, especially during the mobilization into the Russian army in 2022. Chubarov estimates that up to 50,000 people were forced to leave Crimea.
Since Russia launched its unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Crimea’s penal ... Salimov is a Crimean Tatar, a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim group that is ...
Nariman Dzhelyal has been appointed as Ukraine’s new ambassador to Turkiye after facing jail at the Kremlin’s hands.