According to the Kremlin press service, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish Prime Minister discussed the situation of Crimean Tatars and the crisis in Ukraine in a phone call.
“The Prime Minister of Turkey gave a positive assessment of the decisions made by the Russian president to improve the situation of Crimean Tatars and to ensure their fully-fledged participation in the political and social life in Crimea,” the Kremlin said in a statement.
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- In late April, Putin signed a decree on the rehabilitation of Crimean Tatars who suffered during Stalin-era repressions.
- Crimean Tatars, a historic people of the region, were deported en masse to Central Asia by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin 70 years ago. Although many of them returned in the early 1990s, they were unable to reclaim the land they had possessed before their deportation.
Many Crimean Tatars have taken over unclaimed land as squatters by building houses, farms and mosques. Ukrainian authorities have in the past failed to settle the land disputes.
- Currently some 260,000 Crimean Tatars live on the peninsula.
On March 16, Crime held a referendum which saw over 96 percent of its voters support the initiative to become part of Russia. On March 21 the peninsula officially became a subject of the Russian Federation after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed reunification documents into law.
MOSCOW, May 30 (RIA Novosti)
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Crimean Tatars will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights alleging that their rights have been violated in Crimea, Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev said Thursday.
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Dzhemilev said the UN Human Rights Commission and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have prepared reports documenting numerous human rights violation in Crimea.
Crimea, a peninsula that was once part of Ukraine, was annexed by Russia in March following a referendum in the territory. Mosat of Crimea's 300,000 Crimean Tatars boycotted the referendum.
“After the March 16 referendum in Crimea, Russian authorities have pushed the Tatars in Crimean to accept Russian citizenship," Dzhemilev said. "If any Crimean Tatars do not want to accept Russian citizenship or refuse Russian passports, they are being deemed as foreigners within three months."
Crimean Tatars are the native population of Crimea since the Mongol hordes' invasion in the 13th century. In 1944, Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered their expulsion from Crimea, and some 230,000 were deported, many to the Uzbek Socialist Republic. They did not return in large numbers until the beginning of until the beginning of Perestroika -- or Openness -- in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s.
http://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/350331--crimean-tatars-going-to-european-court-of-human-rights
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