On May 18, 1944, at six in the morning, the USSR began the deportation of Crimean Tatars from their native peninsula. People ...

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 ...

May 18 is designated by the Ukrainian parliament as the Remembrance Day of the victims of the genocide of the indigenous Muslim people of Crimea – Crimean Tatars. On this day in 1944 the Soviet ...

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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of Tatars were expelled or pressured to leave, with their lands confiscated and Russians resettled in their stead, while Tatar language and culture were suppressed.

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

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 ...