As the world approaches the one year anniversary of Russia’s illegal annexation of the Crimea, attention of the peninsula has slowly faded away. It is not unusual to watch a TV interview or read an article about the war in Ukraine, and find that the word “Crimea” is not even used once. Ignoring Russia’s occupation of Crimea also ignores the human tragedy taking place there. This is especially true with the minority Crimean Tatar community – an ethnically Turkic and religiously Sunni Islam community which has faced decades of religious and political persecution under Russian domination. Just this week Asan …read more
Source: Egylovers
