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Archive image. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (L) meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Lviv, Ukraine, on August 18, 2022. Photo: PAP/ /Turkish President Press Office /UPI Photo via Newscom

Turkish president calls for Crimea’s return to Ukraine

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that the return of Crimea to Ukraine is “a requirement of international law”.

Leader of Crimean Tatars and the Member of the Ukrainian Parliament Mustafa Dzhemilev. Photo: Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Crimean Tatar leader hopes to see a NATO base on the peninsula after liberation

After the Crimean Peninsula is liberated from Russian occupation, Ukraine’s powerful Black Sea Fleet will most likely be stationed there, and perhaps a NATO base will be established there, Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev told Ukrainian media on Saturday.

Deportation of Crimean Tatars, 1944. Photo: coe.mfa.gov.ua

Sürgünlik means ‘exile’. 80th anniversary of the Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars

Independent Ukraine commemorates the deportation of Tatars from the Crimean Peninsula by Soviet authorities. Nowadays, Crimea is occupied by Russia, and its Tatar population faces persecution by the Kremlin yet again.

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Some 50,000 Crimean Tatars fled the peninsula due to Russian persecution

Refat Chubarov, the head of the Mejlis, the governing body of the Crimean Tatars operating in Ukraine, stated in an interview with the RBK-Ukraine website that approximately 50,000 Crimean Tatars were forced to leave Crimea in the past ten years.