OP-ED

Nedim Useinow: Crimean Tatars – between integration and assimilation

By Nedim Useinow.

Published June 16, 2020 at 12:35 am

Children hold the Crimean Tatar flag on Independence Square in Kyiv on May 18, 2020 during a rally marking the 76th anniversary of the deportation of the indigenous population of Crimea by the Soviet Union.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

This text is a continuation of my article “From demanding autonomy to fighting for survival after annexation in 2014: The national movement of the Crimean Tatars,” which appeared at the end of April 2020 on the Forum for Ukrainian Studies. In that article, I discussed how the post-WWII national movement of the Crimean Tatars has evolved into a liberation movement since the annexation of Crimea in 2014.