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Crimean Tatars and the News Media

Selected News Coverage, Reports and Op-Eds

2011

  • "Mustafa Dzhemiliov:The Russian secret services have started the 'reorientation' of the Crimea by splitting the Crimean Tatars" by Mykola Semena. The Den Weekly Digest 1 December 2011.
  • "Crimean Tatars: A Missing Piece In Ukrainian Society?" UNPO 29 June 29 2011
  • "Crimea's Overlooked Instability" by William Varettoni. Washington Quarterly Summer 2011.
  • "Crimean honour killing that never wasquot; by Elham Asaad Buaras. The Muslim News, 24 June 2011.
  • "Kyiv Urged to Declare 1944 Deportation of Crimean Tatars an Act of Genocide" by Paul Goble. Window on Eurasia, 25 May 2011.
  • "Crimean Tatars from around the World marked The Day of Deportation Victims" by Mykola Semena. DEN.The Day Weekly Digest, 19 May 2011.
  • "Forced Migration and Mortality in the Ottoman Empire, " by Justin McCarthy. History of Truth, 14 May 2011.
  • "Life 'changed for the worse' under Yanukovych, says Crimean Tatar leader," Kyiv Post, 28 February 2011.
  • "Crimean Tatars Gain Support In Building Mosque " RFE/RL, 19 February 2011.
  • "RIA Novosti interview with Mustafa Dzhemilev: 20 Years without the Soviet Union." RIA Novosti, 3 February 2011.
  • "Crimean Tatar leader Jemilev nominated for Nobel Peace Prize." NRCU Ukrainian Radio, 2 February 2011.

2010

  • "Just tolerant enough " by Inna Lykhovyd. Den. Day Weekly Digest, 25 November 2010.
  • "Rift widens between Yanukovych, Medjlis." Ukrainian Journal, 29 August 2010.
  • "No show on TV" by Oleksandr Palii. Den. Day Weekly Digest, 10 August 2010.
  • "Crimean Tatars fear for future" by Matthew Collin. Aljazeera Net, 8 August 2010.
  • "Crimea's confused identity reflects its troubled past" by Lubomyr Luciuk. Kyiv Post, 26 July 2010.
  • "Latinization of Crimean Tatar could mean more than Russianization of that Region" by Paul Goble. Window on Eurasia, 31 May 2010.
  • "90,000 Crimean Tatars remain in exile on 66th anniversary of their deportation by Stalin" by Paul Goble. Window on Eurasia, 18 May 2010.
  • "UNPO Condemns Call by Pro-Russia Groups to Disband Crimean Tatar Institutions. UNPO, 7 April 2010.
  • "Crimean Tatars, government and Opposition" An Interview with Mustafa Qirimoglu (Jemilev) by Mykola Semena. The Day Weekly Digest, 30 March 2010.
  • "Going Nowhere Fast -- Crimean Tatars In The EU" by Ahto Lobjakas. RFE/RL, 17 March 2010.
  • "2009 Human Rights Reports: Ukraine" by U.S. Department of State. U.S. Department of State, 11 March 2010.
  • "New Crimean Tatar Women's Journal Highlights Revival of Reformist Islam in that Nation" by Paul Goble. Window on Eurasia, 6 March 2010.
  • "Linguists Urge Criman Tatars to switch to Lation Alphabet." RFE/RL, 17 Feb. 2010.
  • "Internet Editions of Crimean Tatar Newspapers Disappearing" by Paul Goble. Window on Eurasia, 1 February 2010.
  • "Ukraine Elections Go to Russian-Flavoured Runoff - Fears Abound for Crimean Tatar Population." UNPO, 18 January 2010.

2009

  • "Islamic Terrorist Threat in the Crimea" by Taras Kuzio. Eurasia Daily Monitor, 4 December 2009.
  • "Ukraine fears for its future as Moscow muscles in on Crimea" by Luke Harding. The Observer, 9 October 2009.
  • "Crimea: Talking Past Each Other" by Kseniya Pasechnik. Transitions Online, 29 September 2009.
  • "Ukraine's Options To Counter Russia Are Limited" by Paul Goble. RFE/RL 23 September 2009.
  • "Who are Muslim Crimean Tatars?" by Andrew Wilson. Islam Online 2 September 2009.
  • "In Volatile Crimea, Tatars Bang The Drum For Land Return" by Claire Bigg. RFE/RL 9 August 2009.
  • "Crimea: Mythical Threats and Actual Problems" by M. Kasanenko. Day Weekly Digest (Kyiv), 14 July 2009.
  • "Ukrainian Intelligence Promotes Lustration in Ukraine" by Taras Kuzio. Eurasia Daily Monitor, 5 June 2009.
  • "Mustafa Jemilev Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize" by M. Kasanenko. Day Weekly Digest (Kyiv), 2 June 2009.
  • "Turkish Ministers Back Return of Deported Crimeans." World Bulletin, 28 May 2009.
  • "Tatars Seeking Crimean Land" by James Marson. Kyiv Post, 28 May 2009.
  • "The resolution of the All-Crimean Mourning Meeting, 18 May 2009." UNPO, 26 May 2009.
  • "Exiled by Stalin, Ukraine’s Tatars Still Struggling to Recover" by James Marson. Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2009.
  • "Ukraine to Investigate Crimean Tatar Deportation" by Peter Fednysky. VOA News, 18 May 2009.
  • "OSCE High Commissioner Brings Police and Minorities Together in Crimea." Dzeno Association (Prague), 2 April 2009.
  • "Crimea Scene Investigation" by Joshua Kucera. Slate, 23-27 February 2009.
    A series of 5 articles. The 3rd in the series, "Crimean Tatars Are the Wild card of the Region," is of particular interest.
  • "Crimean Police Apologize to Crimean Tatar Mustafa Khairov, Injured by Police in Attack on his House." Kyiv Post, 24 February 2009.
  • "Crimean Tatars: Police and Minorities Brought Together." UNPO, 19 February 2009.
  • "Crimean Voices of Hatred" by Halya Coynash. UNIAN News Agency, 6 February 2009.
  • "Crimean Tatars Ask Council Of Europe To Settle Dispute." RFE/RL, 2 February 2009.

    • 2008

  • "Laying Claim to Asia" by Dmitry Shlapentokh Transitions Online, 22 December 2008.
  • "U.S. May Open Diplomatic Post in Crimea: State Dept." by Susan Cornwell. Reuters, 19 December 2008.
  • "Russian Intelligence Seeks to Destabilize Crimea" by By Taras Kuzio. Eurasia Daily Monitor, Vol. 5, Number 188, 1 October 2008.
  • "Fears That Crimea Could Be Next Flashpoint for Conflict With Russia" by Askold Krushelnycky. RFE/RE, 24 August 2008.
  • "Ukrainians Discuss How Best to Counter Russian Threat to Crimea" by Paul Goble. Window on Eurasia, 21 August 2008.
  • "Russia's Imperial Comeback Not Desirable for Turkey" by Hakan Kirimli. Today's Zaman (Istanbul), 18 August 2008.
  • "Crimean Tatars Mark 30th Anniversary of Hero's Self-Immolation" by Irena Chalupa. RFE/RL, 28 June 2008. (On the sacrifice of Musa Mamut by burning himself to death.)
  • "The Continuing Shadows of 1944's 'Black Day' in Crimea" by Paul Goble. Window on Eurasia, 18 May 2008.
  • "Yakup Satar: The last Turkish veteran of the First World War who also fought for the independence of Turkey " Times Online, 3 April 2008. (Yakup Satar was of Crimean Tatar descent.)
  • "Anti-Minority Violence in Ukraine Continues on Record Pace " UCSJ, 25 March 2008

    • 2007

  • "Crimean Tatars Clash with Police over Land" by Pavel Korduban. Eurasian Daily Monitor, 14 November 2007.
  • "A Bittersweet Homecoming for Crimea's Tatars" by Volodymyr Prytula. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 5 September 2007.
  • "63rd Anniversary of Crimean Deportation." Petro Grigorenko Foundation, 18 May 2007.
  • "Crimea: Conflict-Prevention through Institution-Making" by Gwendolyn Sasse. Development & Transition, No. 6, April 2007.
  • "Crimea: From Conflict Prevention to Development" by Sascha Graumann. Development & Transition, No. 6, April 2007.
  • "Tension rises between Crimean Tatars and Neo-Nazis." UCSJ, 30 April 2007.
  • "Tatars push to regain their historic lands in Crimea: Six decades after the Soviet deportation of their entire ethnic group to Central Asia, returning ethnic Tatars are pushing to regain their historic lands." Today's Zaman, 28 March 2007.
  • "A lesson in stifling violent extremism: Crimea's Tatars have created a promising model to lessen ethnoreligious conflict" by Waleed Ziad and Laryssa Chomiak. Christian Science Monitor, 20 February 2007.
  • "The Imperial knot of Crimea" by Ostap Kryvdyk. (Trans. Anna Platonenko.) Ukrayinska Pravda, 5 February 2007.

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