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Crimean Tatars
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- 1Crimean Tatars caught between Russia, Turkey and Ukraine▼“The Crimean Tatars: Between Russia, Turkey and Ukraine”
Attention is turning to the Crimean Tatars, the indigenous Muslim people of Crimea, and their complex position among Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 placed many Tatars under occupation, prompting deportations, bans of their representative body and exile to mainland Ukraine. Turkey's ties to them as ethnic kin add a further dimension to their geopolitical plight.
- 2Russian courts sentence three Crimean residents to up to 17 years for treason●Російські суди засудили трьох кримчан до 12, 16 і 17 років колонії за «держзраду» Російські суди ухвалили вироки трьом ж
Russian courts have sentenced three residents of occupied Crimea to 12, 16 and 17 years in strict-regime penal colonies on charges of alleged 'state treason'. Ukrainian media report the verdicts, which follow Moscow's wider pattern of prosecuting Crimean Tatars and other residents of the peninsula since its 2014 annexation. Ukraine and rights groups view such cases as politically motivated repression in occupied territory.