#crimean tatars

[kyitsya]

🩵💛🤝🇺🇦 — may our occupied territories be free soon

[vyvilha]

russian police in occupied crimea has illegally detained indigenous rights activist lutfiye zudieva. she was among very few people documenting russian persecution against crimean tatars

[jyndor]

do people understand that crimea is only so heavily russian because russia ethnically cleansed the region of the indigenous tatars over like two/three centuries, and even though they were granted right of return in 1989 by the soviets they still only make up like 15% of the crimea population, so frankly any majority opinion over what the crimeans want that doesn't take into account what the tatars want is actually just a symptom of russian imperialism?

oh but I'm sure then these same idiots will claim that because russia doesn't consider them indigenous that they aren't indigenous, even though the tatars have been the people in crimea since ethnogenesis, are now and have historically been marginalized by both russia and ukraine, have connections to the land and distinct culture as well as a governing body.

so no actually it isn't right for ukraine to just give up crimea even though the majority of the region wants to be annexed by russia because that majority was settled there in order to displace the tatars.

now ultimately if the tatars want independence they should absolutely have that, and if the russian majority has a problem with that, they can go back to russia. this is what these folks would say in any other case. and they'd be right - the self-determination of the indigenous people of a region trumps the comfort of settlers. always. but as of right now they are in favor of staying in ukraine.

I get that the west and the us are the spawn of satan but that doesn't make russia good lmao you do not need to defend them for their bullshit

[redjaybathood]

This is very important. In Crimea, russians, again, start to use fake criminal investigations to incarcerate Crimean Tatars. This is not new - but it is the new mass wave of searches on trumped-up charges and arrests.

Translation of the thread below.

1/9 Mass searches in Crimea

10 Crimean Tatar families. 10 homes, where russian "security forces" broke into at dawn. What do we know about the newe wave of mass searches on the Crimean peninsula? 

2/9 4 activists of "Crimean Solidarity", Bakhchysarai, as well as 6 religion leaders and activists from Dzhankoy district, became victims of the rampage of the occupatoinal forces.

Among them, the former Imam Remzi Kurtnezirov, who has a severe disability.

 3/9 "Security forces" behaved themselves very rudely, despite the presence of elderly and small children.

Over the course of the searches, they took documents, tech, and literature. Moreover, the relatieves of the detained people state that the books were planted.

 4/9 FSB agents, when asked by the relatives, replied that they are looking for weapons and illicit chemicals. 

The men are charged with Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - the same one that the Hizb ut-Tahrir cases are fabricated under.

5/9 After the searches, Crimean Tatars were taken to FSB HQ in Simferopol. 

Currently, some of them were allowed a lawyer but the pre-trial detention measure was not choosen yet.

6/9 Names of the detained: Rustem Osmanov, Aziz Azizov, Memet Lumanov, Mustafa Abduramanov, Remzi Kurtnezirov, Vakhid Mustafayev, Ali Mamutov, Arsen Kashka, Enver Khalilayev, Nariman Ametov

7/9  

According to preliminary information, this is the third largest wave of searches on the alleged involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir. 

The most massive searches took place in March 2019, when 24 Crimean Tatars were targeted.

8/9 CrimeaSOS analyst Yevhen Yaroshenko notes that detentions in the "Hizb ut-Tahrir cases" in Crimea are intensified approximately once every six months.

This is due to the targeted plan for certain categories of "cases" that intelligence officers have to fulfill.

9/9 Repressions against Crimean Tatars are one of the principles of russia's criminal policy on the peninsula. 

In order to stop the occupiers, we must respond firmly to every manifestation of lawlessness and effectively oppose it

[folklorespring]

HOW TO SUPPORT POLITICAL PRISONERS? WRITE THEM A LETTER

According to the latest data from the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Russia is illegally holding 209 Crimean political prisoners, including 126 Crimean Tatars. The Russian Federation is persecuting Ukrainian citizens for religious reasons (e.g. Jehovah’s Witnesses and Cases of Crimean Muslims), journalistic and human rights activities, and anti-war protests. It is also fabricating sabotage, terrorism, extremism and espionage cases.

Sending political prisoners letters or postcards is the easiest way to give them moral support and let them know they're no alone. Choose a Kremlin prisoner and send them a letter or postcard from February 19 to May 19.

Physical address: Kyiv, 01001, P.O. Box B-539, Human Rights Information Center

E-mail: Free.CrimeaUA@gmail.com

Text should be in russian (message me if you need help with translation) and politically neutral.

[mapsontheweb]

Thought this was worth to share

[yellowcry]

Another fact about annexation I want to share.

In the next year after the annexation started, we received forms in school where we could choose to study Ukrainian and/or Crimean Tatar languages as a extracurricular activities. But, at the next day, the kids that had chosen to study them got yelled by our homeroom teacher and were forced to refill them. She explained it by the fact that we wouldn't go there anyway and our parents would be forced to pay the salary to the teacher because the government wouldn't if there weren't any classes. (And it sounds so stupid, )

Looking back, it was such a shitty excuse. They basically pretended to give us an option, while throwing it out the moment we had choose option that was 'wrong'

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

Crimea (c) Natalia Leschenko @ natashale777  

[illustratus]

The Khan's Palace in Bakhchisarai, Crimea by Carlo Bossoli

[songs-of-the-east]

“A grandmother and her grandson in the family home in Sari Bash, a village in the Crimean steppe where Tatars were given virtually worthless land. The village is a former prison camp with very poor infrastructure.”

Photographed by Carolyn Drake in Crimea, Ukraine. 2006.

[madam-of-lithuania]

The world culture day in Kaunas part 4

My home city Kaunas, Lithuania🇱🇹

The Crimean tatar dance

[vintage-ukraine]

Gugyum, Crimea, XIXth century

Guguym is a traditional metal pitcher used to carry water from the fountain or the source to the house.

[ohsalome]

I often hear comments about Crimea and the other territories occupied by Russia being the “price of peace” in Ukraine. I, like many Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians, know that rewarding aggression and brutal occupation does not bring peace.

Crimea is not Russian to be “given back” to Russia. It never was. It never will be.

It is the homeland that has been repeatedly, brutally taken from us; it is the homeland we will not stop fighting for.

My grandmother, Shevkiye, was just 11 years old when on May 18, 1944, Soviet soldiers barged into her home at five o’clock in the morning. World War II was still raging and the Soviet regime had just accused the Crimean Tatars of collaborating with the enemy, the German Nazis – a baseless allegation that led to the unimaginable horror of genocide by deportation.

My great-grandfather was at the front, fighting those same Nazis whom he was accused of collaborating with. So the Soviet soldiers found at home just his wife and four children – the youngest one only a few months old. The soldiers gave them 15 minutes to gather their belongings and did not stop hitting my great-grandmother with their guns as she struggled to pack.

They marched them out of the house and – along with other families from their home village of Ayserez – hoarded loaded them onto a train meant for transporting cattle. The wagons were packed with people and there were no toilets on them; people struggled to breathe. No food or water was provided on the long journey, during which my grandmother’s family remained unaware of their destination.

Exhausted and starved, they focused solely on survival as hunger and disease killed many along the way. One of the most traumatising memories of the journey for my grandmother was witnessing a pregnant woman give birth on the train and then pass away shortly after. A Soviet soldier threw her body out of the wagon while the train kept moving.

After 20 days on the train, they finally arrived at Golodnaya Steppe station in the Mirzachul region of Uzbekistan, where they were unceremoniously unloaded onto a scorching hot platform. With no money or support, they struggled to survive in this unknown land.

They settled in a dilapidated barrack with no roof, windows, or doors. Their food consisted of grass, nettle, potato peels, and rotten potatoes; their drinking water came from irrigation ditches and often caused dysentery. There was no medical assistance available; the Soviet authorities clearly wanted as many Crimean Tatars to die as possible.

The forced deportation of the Crimean Tatars to Central Asia resulted in the death of 46 percent of the population, leaving a gaping wound in the hearts of those who survived. It was the culmination of a century and a half of deliberate and systematic destruction of the Crimean Tatar people, heritage and culture after the subjugation of the Crimean state by Russian imperial forces in the late 18th century. It is on this obliteration of the Crimean Tatars that the bloody myth of Crimea as a “Russian territory” was built.

[redjaybathood]

imagine seeing a post with a list of resources to learn new things in 2022, and 2023. imagine seeing "russian language" on that list.

not sure why anyone would want to learn russian in 2022 - or in 2023 for that matter - so may I suggest learning the Crimean Tatar language instead? It's endangered not the least by Russian current colonial and genocidal occupation of Crimea, that continues a glorious tradition of Russian killing, deporting, imprisoning, or otherwise getting rid of the native population, and otherwise discouraging the use of native language and cultural practices.

Basics for Alphabet

A textbook (e-book) (paid version, +/- 2-3 USD)

Another textbook (free PDF, although you can also buy it on Amazon; авторка, можливо, російського похождення, хоч і викладає, можливо, в берклі, тут неясно, ви дивіться самі чи будете ризикувати, я вчу по посиланню вище)

Crimean tatar language for foreigners (only paperback, you would need to inquire re: delivery in your country)

A good idea would be to track this hashtag and this one, too, in TikTok if you use it, to see and hear actual users of this language, and some of them even have tips for learning it.

Ukrainians would have more options - just check out books in Книгарня є, а також підбірка ресурсів в твітері, в телеграмі Кримськотатарська мова. Ще є в інсті, але я там не сиджу, немаю посилань.

and a multimedia platform for learning qırımtatar tili here. this is like. the basics of basics. for people from 0 to 5 years old. but I figure, it's super easy, it gets you some vocabulary - with examples of pronunciation!!! which is, IMO, huge. so if you are not embarrassed to start with what our kids in kindergartens do, feel free.

[thenuclearmallard]

My aunt was Crimean Tatar. I wish we had the chance to meet before she passed.