A Crimean Tatar man cries during a rally held in Simferopol on the 60th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Tatars from Crimea. His mother was 11, his father 13 when they were deported from the ...

On May 18, 1944, at six in the morning, the USSR began the deportation of Crimean Tatars from their native peninsula. People were given no more than 30 minutes to gather their belongings. In just a ...

“People were terrified of us,” says Osmanov, who was part of the first wave of Crimean Tatars to return to the Crimean peninsula on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast during perestroika in the late ...

Before Russia took control of the peninsula in 1783, Tatars were the majority population there. They currently comprise 15% of the population of Crimea. Even though they are now a smaller group ...

Although Poland has a long history of Catholic-Orthodox and Catholic-Judaic relations, Tatars were the only ones to bring and maintain strong links to Islam and oriental culture. A journey along the ...

With their ancestral homeland at the heart of future peace talks with Russia, Crimean Tatars are fighting to keep their ...

The Crimean Tatars were accused of collaborating with the Nazis and were taken off in cattle trucks to the Ural Mountains and to Uzbekistan, thousands of kilometers away. The lucky ones were ...

Occupying authorities in Crimea began to distribute draft papers, and Crimean Tatars became their main target. At least in the first days, they were mobilized to war disproportionately.

Dozens of Tatars sought legal help to avoid the draft ... Mr. Bariyev said Tatar men were leaving the peninsula through Russia and traveling on to Kazakhstan. “This is discrimination based ...