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The Russian Foreign Ministry called Turkey’s concern about the situation of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea “opportunistic”

Zakharova was asked to comment statement Turkish Foreign Ministry dated May 18 on the occasion of the anniversary of the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet authorities.

“Turkey will continue to support its relatives in order to eliminate the grievances of the Crimean Tatars, protect their identity, ensure their well-being and well-being, which continue to be tested by the hardships that have arisen as a result of the illegal annexation of Crimea,” Turkish diplomats said.

Zakharova called Ankara’s statements “politicized and confrontational” and accused the Turkish Foreign Ministry of “biased interpretation of historical events for destructive purposes and to please its own political ambitions.”

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry speaker, in Crimea “equal rights and conditions have been created for the preservation and development of national culture, identity, freedom of conscience and religion.”

“The current demonstrative concern of Turkey with the situation of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea (despite the fact that until 2014 the authorities of this country stubbornly ignored the numerous claims of international organizations to Ukraine regarding the implementation of the ethnocultural rights of this people) only confirms the opportunistic nature of such concerns,” Zakharova said.

She threatened Ankara “to pay attention to similar problems in Turkey.”

Context:

On May 11, 1944, the head of the USSR, Joseph Stalin, signed a decree on the eviction of all Crimean Tatars from the territory of Crimea. The justification for the deportation was prepared in a separate memo to the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Lavrenty Beria. Most of the Crimean Tatars were evicted to Uzbekistan. They began to return to Crimea after 1990.

In November 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the deportation of the Crimean Tatars as genocide and established May 18 as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide. In 2017, the World Congress of Crimean Tatars sent an appeal to the governments of different countries with a call to recognize deportation as genocide.

Russia occupied Crimea after the power blockade of Ukrainian military units and illegal referendum on March 16, 2014… The accession of the peninsula to the Russian Federation is not recognized by Ukraine and most countries of the world.

After the occupation of Crimea, according to human rights activists, the human rights situation on the peninsula has deteriorated significantly.

Under various pretexts, including the fight against extremism, the occupation authorities persecute people who dare to openly criticize Russia’s actions on the peninsula, especially the Crimean Tatars, human rights activists from Human Rights Watch said. In April 2016, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people in the list of banned organizations.

Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova announced on May 18 that 93 Crimean Tatars are persecuted by the Russian Federation for political reasons… Of these, 78 are serving illegal sentences on the territory of the Russian Federation, and 15 are under administrative supervision in Crimea.

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