Rally in memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people held in Ankara
On May 13, in Anadolu Square in the Turkish capital people honored the memory of the 1944 deportation victims and protested against the ban on the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people
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One of the young representatives of the World Congress of Crimean Tatars Alper Yavuzeser made a speech at a mourning rally
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A speech was delivered by the representative of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people in Turkey, the Head of the "Emel" Foundation Zafer Karatay
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Speech by the famous writer Serra Menekay
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Speech of a member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the Director of the news agency QHA ("Crimean News") and Radio Hayat Gayana Yuksel
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The Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, the President of the World Congress of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian MP Refat Chubarov joined the action by means of video communication
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Crimean Tatars of different ages from all over Turkey participated in the rally in Anadolu Square
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Among the participants of the action was the Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey Andrii Sybiha who read out the appeal of the Foreign Minister of Ukraine
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People were holding Crimean Tatar, Ukrainian and Turkish flags in their hands
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Participants in the rally became the voice of the Crimean Tatars, who are subjected to repression by Russian occupiers in the Crimea
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The meeting was attended by a member of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of the Crimean Tatars Mukremin Sahin
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The Crimean Tatar Halima-khanym was deported from the Crimea at the age of four. She arrived at the mourning rally from the hospital where she is on treatment