Crimean Tatar Leader Appeals to Azerbaijan and Turkey for Support Staunton, July 4 – If Azerbaijan and Turkey, two Turkic countries, adopt a principled position of support for the Crimean Tatars, Moscow will have to change its current approach to the Turkic nation on the peninsula and live up to its earlier promises, according to Refat Chubarov, the head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis. In an interview to the Azerbaijani news service Haqqin.az, Chubarov says that members of his nation are “losing hope for positive change” and that their “disappointment is growing ever larger.” He says that despite problems, “We, Tatars in Ukraine lived freely and now we are simply being deprived of the oxygen” we need to survive . Indeed, the impression now exists, the Crimean Tatar leader says, that “we have again returned to the Soviet Union.” Chubarov stressed that “not a single individual in Crimea has escaped problems connected with the new realities” which involve “a deficit of freedoms” in all matters from the everyday to the most exalted. In the past, he continued, Ukraine “did not justify many of our expectations, but nevertheless it provided us with what is the most important thing: it did not prohibit us from being ourselves ... Freedom of speech, freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom for open discussion – these values you recognize more quickly when they are taken from you.” haqqin.az/news/25387
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:19:04 +0000
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