Turkey’s FM meets with nearly 50 representatives of Crimean Associations.
Turkey supports and encourages the return of Tatars in their homeland Davutogllu said, adding that the current Turkish President and Prime Minister are saying that do not even think that we can stay indifferent to any matter related to our compatriots in Crimea or anywhere in the world.
“Wherever our brothers and sisters are suffering we will be the first to help them,” Davutoglu said.
The Crimean Tatars fear exile again if the Crimea region of Ukraine is going to stay occupied by Russia. The 280,000 Crimean Tatars living in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea constitute close to 13 percent of the total population, according to Turkey’s Foreign Ministry.
Muslim minority Tatars are manning the streets and mosques as they fear a repeat of the exile they faced in 1944 under Stalin, which saw them scattered in labor camps across the barren steppes of Central Asia.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/296172--turkey-we-will-always-stand-by-crimean-tatars
3/3/14
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Tatarstan leader to visit Crimea for meeting with compatriots...
ReplyDeleteTatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov will make a trip to Crimea on March 5 for a series of meetings with compatriots to show his support, Minnikhanov's deputy Rustam Temirgaliyev said on Tuesday.
The press service of Tatarstan's president confirmed that Minnikhanov planned several meetings in Crimea and that Simferopol was the first place on his itinerary.
On Tuesday, the Tatarstan president backed the foundation In Support of Crimean Residents. Minnikhanov urged the population of Tatarstan, its business community and working collectives to support compatriots in Crimea and provide assistance to them.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/722067?utm_medium=rss20
4/3/14
Tatarstan President Travels to Crimea to Meet Tatar Leaders....
ReplyDeleteThe president of the Russian republic of Tatarstan traveled Wednesday to Crimea in southern Ukraine to meet with representatives of the Tatar community, which make up more than one-tenth of the peninsula’s population.
The Crimean parliament said in a statement that Rustam Minnikhanov was met in the administrative capital, Simferopol, by top local officials and the Russian consul.
Minnikhanov is due to hold talks with leaders of the local Tatar community, which has come out in support of the newly installed government in the national capital, Kiev.
The Crimean government, however, has rejected the authority of the leadership in Kiev, a stance that has raised concern of possible tensions between the peninsula’s ethnic Russia majority and Tatars.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140305/188111747/Tatarstan-President-Travels-to-Crimea-to-Meet-Tatar-Leaders.html
5/3/14