For Crimea's Tatars, history is not just something in books—it is a guiding and often painful undercurrent of everyday life. The eldest of them still remember the 1944 deportation of their ...

Tasheva is a co-founder of CrimeaSOS, an activist group that provides legal, psychological and humanitarian assistance to Crimean Tatars and others who have fled the peninsula, where the Muslim ...

BAKHCHISARAY, Ukraine—The stone minarets of the 16th-century * Khan's Palace that dominate the skyline here, a city of about 50,000 a 30-minute bus ...

When Lierane Tulchiy’s neighbour was abducted off the street after staging a peaceful one-man protest against Russia’s occupation of Crimea in March 2014, she knew she had to help.

“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 ...

That's how Ernes Ayserezli is feeling these days. The 26-year-old is part of an ethnic minority, the Crimean Tatars. He and his dad own a goat farm that's on a windy mountainside overlooking the ...

Kidnapped from her Slavic homeland and sold into sex slavery as a child, Hürrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, eventually ...

In the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, dignitaries from Ukraine’s Muslim community gathered at Musafir, a Crimean Tatar restaurant in the center of town. Musafir means “guest” or “visitor” in ...

The history of the Crimean Tatars has taught them to tread carefully. Periods of persecution and exodus, mainly at Russian hands, have characterized the Muslim ethnic minority’s story from at ...

Tatars of Washington State celebrated Sabantuy, a centuries-old summer festival, on June 8 at Lynnwood’s Lynndale Park with ...