Moderated by Elnara Nuriieva-Letova
Elnara Nuriieva-Letova, Crimean Tatar cross-media activist, author and publicist, project manager of UA:SOUTH and CEMAAT of Crimea Media Platform, talks to Elmaz Alimova, Chevening Scholar, MSc student of Human Rights and Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Martin-Oleksandr Kisly, a Ukrainian historian of Crimea and Crimean Tatars with a focus on Soviet and post-Soviet periods.
In this episode of the Bur’yan podcast, we will talk about Crimean Tatars, who, along with Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks, are one of the indigenous peoples of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. We are going to discuss the history, culture and identity of Qirimli to understand the nature of repressions against Crimean Tatars that have been carried out on the occupied peninsula since 2014. After all, these repressions are not something new; they are a part of russia's violent colonization of Crimea, which has been going on for over 250 years.
Timecodes
00:00 — intro
02:11 — formation of Crimean Tatar people
04:15 — why is it wrong to consider Qirimli as a subgroup of Tatars?
07:01 — history of Crimean Tatar literature, language and script
16:03 — Crimean Tatar language initiatives in contemporary Ukraine
18:32 — Crimean Tatar identity: formation and challenges, Elnara’s and Elmaz’s personal experiences
29:57 — the emergence of the Crimean Khanate as a state
32:24 — the Crimean Khanate's political governance and relations with other states
34:21 — the first annexation of Crimea by the russian empire: military suppressions of Crimean Tatar uprisings, forced migration, similarities with current russian colonial politics
43:45 — Crimean Democratic Republic: a short but bright history of Crimean Tatar national state
47:42 — Crimea after the soviet occupation
50:53 — the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944
56:13 — outro