Crimean Tatars in Turkey

Finally a different subject, good for you!
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do you know who are tatars?
a member of a people who came from east-central Asia and founded an empire stretching into Serbia, Russia, and Ukraine. The Tatars joined with the Mongols, and their combined empire flourished until the 16th century, when they were defeated by the Russians and the Ottoman Turks.

youtube: THE MONGOLS,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4xkTxJIAk&feature=related

Genghis Khan and the Mongols
http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h11mon.htm

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5168702.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQAKRw6mToA&feature=related

Crimean Tatar Diaspora Nationalism in Turkey


Recently, Crimean Tatar e-mail list (Crimea-L) was swept by a lively discussion: Are we Crimean Tatars or Turks? Main participants of the discussion were members of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in Turkey, who mostly insisted on the identification of "Crimean Turk." The discussion, however, ended in a fruitless way. Although my thesis was not designed to answer the identity question of Crimean Tatars, I believe that it throws light on the political making of Crimean Tatar diaspora in Turkey, and may help us understand why Crimean Tatars in Turkey are so insistent in their arguments

The Crimean Tatar national movement in Turkey is still an elite movement, and is not well represented at the grass-roots level. The number of Crimean Tatar nationalists make up a small percentage of Crimean Tatar population in Turkey. The Crimean Tatar national movement is not a result of a unified program of action. It is better to talk about a dispersed movement, with many streams of thought and styles of politics.

The Crimean Tatars are a Turkic people who inhabited
Crimean peninsula from at least the 13th century to Word War
II, when they were deported to Central Asia by Stalin's
orders. Although the Soviet regime "exonerated" them, it
has denied permission for the Crimean Tatars to return to
Crimea. At present, Crimean Tatars live in diaspora. Large
numbers are living in Ozbekistan, or in the principal cities
of the Turkish Republic. At various times, other Tatar
groupings migrated as far as Helsinki, Finland and New York,
while still others stayed in the Dobruja region of Romania.
Poland has a small enclave.



http://www.qurultay.org/eng/yazi_eng.asp?yazi_no=210


http://www.iccrimea.org/scholarly/bwilliams.html

The famous Crimean Tatar
Gaspıralı İsmail Bey

List of famous Crimean Tatars

Some more of famous Tatars

Sergei Rachmaninov - the world famous composer, concert pianist (Tatar ancestry)


Rudolf Nuriev -the world famous ballet dancer


Irek Mukhamedov - ballet dancer


Näcip Cihanov - composer


Marat Safin - the world famous tennis player


Dinara Safina - tennis player


Maria Sharapova- the world famous tennis player (Tatar ancestory)

http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/China/save/iverson/iverson.htm


http://www.slitat.org/