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 ...

Four of her siblings were among the thousands of Crimean Tatars who never even made it to their final destination, Uzbekistan. Starting in the nineteen-sixties, the Soviet Union began to allow ...

Last week, Lilya Budjurova, the host of a political talk show at Crimea’s only independent television station, prepared to dedicate her program to the seventieth anniversary of Stalin’s ...

Hannah Burfield meets Elmaz Asan, journalist and Cambridge scholar, to discuss her work raising awareness about the history ...

“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 ...

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 ...

It continued under the Soviets after the Russian Revolution and in 1944, the Crimean Tatars were deported to Central Asia. They were only allowed to return to their homeland in the 1990s ...

and as a result many were sent to labour camps or relocated in poor living conditions. Soviet archives show that 30,000 Crimean Tatars died less than two years after the deportations. The Soviet ...