The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that he agreed with the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan on joint actions for the protection of the rights of Crimean Tatars.


Poroshenko on the last working day of the week spent with Erdogan dialogues." We agreed to implement common events to support and protect the rights of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea ", - wrote to Clinton on the last working day of the week on Twitter.

on Thursday, the members of the resolution of the UN security Council held an informal meeting on the situation in Crimea, with the participation of ex-head of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev, who said on the need to strengthen sanctions against Russia to get her to abandon the Crimea, as well as the infringement of the rights of the Crimean Tatars and their mass outflow from the Crimea.

for its part, the Vice Premier of Crimea Ruslan Balbec said Fins news that Dzhemilev has not defended the desires of his people. According to his statement, only in the Russian Crimea Crimean Tatars for the first time in most years has been a complete restoration of their rights: political, cultural, socio-economic, humanitarian and other.

Crimea and located on the Crimean Peninsula Sevastopol became the Russian regions according to the results of the referendum on 16 March 2014, more than 90% of participants who voted for reunification with Russia. The referendum was a reaction to the coup on 22 February in Kiev.

in Crimea there are about 260 thousand Crimean Tatars. After the annexation of Crimea to Russia in March 2014, in practice, 100% of Crimean Tatars received passports of Russian citizens, they are also widely represented in government. According to the Constitution of the Crimea, the status of state languages assigned to Russian, Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages.

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