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A Khanate For Sale: Tatars Fear Crimea's Pull Toward Russia

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2014 · People & Blogs

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CNN's Diana Magnay finds Crimea's minority Muslim Tatars fearful of a return to Russian control.

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Crimean Tatar Leader Tells Putin Secession Would Break Pact (nbcnews, March 12, 2014)
http://nbcnews.to/1fAJnE3
"A Crimean Tatar leader told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that the secession of Crimea from Ukraine to join Russia would violate an international treaty in which Russia, Britain and the United States vowed to keep Ukraine intact.

Putin spoke by phone with Mustafa Dzhemilev, a senior figure in the Crimean Tatar community, in what may have been an effort to ease their concerns over a referendum on Sunday in which Crimeans will be asked whether they want to join Russia.

Many Crimean Tatars, who make up about 12 percent of the population of the Black Sea peninsula, are strongly opposed to falling under Russia's control. Exiled en masse by the Soviet authorities during World War Two, many Crimean Tatars are very wary of Russia.

Their leader has called for a boycott of the plebiscite...."

Turkey mobilizes for Crimea after 160 years (al-Monitor, March 4, 2014)
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/03/turkey-concern-crimea-ukraine-crisis-tartars.html
"The Crimean peninsula, scene of one of most important military struggles of the last years of the Ottoman Empire, has made a surprising comeback to the world scene after the events in Ukraine. Russia's moves of sending troops to Crimea, in an effort to sever it from Ukraine, prompted Ankara and Western capitals to react. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutolgu, who went to Kiev last Friday, met with the former speaker of the Tatar National Assembly, Mustafa Abdulcemil Kirimoglu, and declared: "If the term is appropriate, we are in 'mobilization' to defend the rights of our kin in Crimea by doing whatever is necessary.".... Turkey believes that the rights of the Crimean Tatars, with whom it has been in close relations with since the first days of the republic, will be better preserved not under Russian control but within the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Turkey's Agency for Cooperation and Coordination (TIKA) and other institutions had established close ties with the Crimean Tatars who had been trying to reassert their identities...."

 
Crimean Khanate (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Khanate

Crimean-Nogai raids into East Slavic lands (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean-Nogai_raids_into_East_Slavic_lands

Crimean Tatars (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars

Deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars

Sürgün: The Crimean Tatars' deportation and exile
http://www.massviolence.org/Surgun-The-Crimean-Tatars-deportation-and-exile?artpage=1-8

SLAVE TRADE IN THE EARLY MODERN CRIMEA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CHRISTIAN,MUSLIM, AND JEWISH SOURCES.
MIKHAIL KIZILOV (academia.edu, Mikhail Kizilov)
http://bit.ly/1dIGthm

Uni Tuebingen, academia.edu, Mikhail Kizilov Papers
https://uni-tuebingen.academia.edu/MikhailKizilov

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