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 ...

WASHINGTON — Ukraine and Russia may be headed for a fresh conflict over Crimea, where ethnic Tatars and members of a Ukrainian extremist group blockaded truck traffic into the Ukrainian ...

Two years after Russia seized their historic homeland from Ukraine, the Tatars are now the target of an escalating campaign of repression mounted by their new overlords. The suspicion of them is ...

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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.

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 ...

The deportation of at least 240,000 Crimean Tatars to central Asia by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1944 is forever ingrained in the memory of the people of that region. Stalin used claims ...

Crimean Tatars’ land and right to exist freely have been taken away. Our rights have been grossly violated for nearly a decade, with acts of genocide systematically committed against us.

LOS ANGELES — There’s a meditative quality to Slavs and Tatars: Hang Don’t Cut, on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery through September 9. Step through “Soft Power” (2023), a carpeted black ...