The lower house of the Dutch Parliament has supported a motion recognizing the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union as an act of genocide, according to the Dutch Parliament. The ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crimean Tatars Safeguard Traditions in Ukraine in Hope of Return to Homeland By Anastasiia Malenko and Felix Hoske KYIV (Reuters) - With their ancestral homeland at the heart of future peace talks ...