About 10,000 Crimean Tatars depart since Russia’s annexation of Crimea - Dzhemilev
The new authorities continue to drive Crimean Tatars away from the peninsula.
“Discrimination and lawlessness against the Crimean Tatars, in particular abductions and murders of young people, forced recruitment into the army which may be sent to fight against Ukrainian brothers, a complete lack of democratic freedoms and any prospects for young people in occupied Crimea make a lot of them to leave their homeland and move to the mainland of Ukraine,” Mustafa Dzhemilev said at the World Congress of Crimean Tatars in Ankara.
The leader of the Crimean Tatars said that after the so-called Crimean Spring 76 families returned to the peninsula from the places they had been deported to, but none of them received permission to settle in Crimea because, as the authorities say, ‘the annual quota has been already filled’, and these families have to come back. According to Dzhemilev, in previous years, up to 2,000 people returned to Crimea annually.
In his opinion, the new ‘masters’ are intentionally discriminating Crimean Tatars in order to squeeze them out of the peninsula.
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