Many Muslim Tatars fought in the Russian-Polish War in 1792, and the corps of the Polish army was commanded by Tatar general Jozef Bielak Jo Harper |22.07.2022 WARSAW, Poland In Warsaw, the imposing Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East shows a pile of religious symbols […]
L. Bohdanowicz The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland No. 3 (Oct., 1942), pp. 163-180 (18 pages) Published By: Cambridge University Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/25221864 Cite […]
by Maxim Edwards Constanta, Romania – The Grand Mosque of Constanta in southeast Romania has a hulking minaret nearly 50 metres high overlooking the Black Sea. It was constructed as […]
Since annexation many ethnic Tatar activists have been detained in outdated mental institutions, rights activists say Madeline Roache Tuesday 28 March 2017 Lawyers and human rights activists say Russian authorities […]
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA, ASSOCIATED PRESS UROZHAYNE, Crimea — Feb 15, 2016 Elnara Asanova lives alone with her four small children because her husband, an ethnic Tatar, is in jail. Last April, when she was seven months pregnant, police grabbed him from the streets of their village because he had taken […]
By Tom Parfitt, Crimea3:57PM BST 06 Oct 2014 This spring, two tragedies hit Ilmi Umerov in one week. First his father died suddenly after a short illness. Then his homeland […]
ALEXANDER WINNING BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea (Reuters) – Seventy years after their families’ mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland’s new Russian authorities or resist them? Some Tatars – Sunni Muslims of Turkic origin – fear a return to […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Sunday, 30 March 2014 00:00 The latest move by Crimean Muslim Tatar was expected to face Russian pressures, amid moves by Moscow to convince the minority to drop their opposition BAKHCHISARAY – Crimea’s indigenous Muslim Tatars have taken the first steps towards seeking autonomy for the […]
Tatarstan’s President Rustam Minnikhanov (right) in Simferopol on March 5. March 05, 2014 The president of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, and the pro-Russian prime minister of Ukraine’s Crimea, Serhiy Aksyonov, have signed an agreement on cooperation. Minnikhanov told journalists after the signing ceremony […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Tuesday, 04 March 2014 16:39 A suggested separation vote on March 30 was deemed a bad idea for many Muslim Tatars, rejecting the idea of separation. SIMFEROPOL – As war drumbeats increase in Ukraine, Muslim Tatars in the autonomous Republic of Crimea are […]
Huff Post: by Alissa De Carbonel — (Reuters) – Only five days ago, Tatars of Ukraine’s Crimea came out in their thousands, chanting Allahu Akbar in a show of loyalty to the new authorities in Kiev and opposition to separatist demands by the region’s Russian ethnic majority. But now, with […]
Source: OnIslam & News Agencies Thursday, 05 December 2013 00:00 MOSCOW – After years of legal debates, Russian Muslims have finally restored the 15th century Khan Mosque in Kasimov town, […]