Mustafa Dzhemilev, Ukrainian people's deputy and former leader of the Crimean Tatar Majlis, banned in the Russian Federation for extremism, flew to Ankara and met there with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Interfax-Ukraine reports this with reference to the Turkish Anadolu agency.
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the leader of the Crimean Tatar people and deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Mustafa Abdulcemil Kyrymoglu. The meeting took place at the Presidential Complex in Ankara behind closed doors and lasted 45 minutes,” the agency said in a statement on its website.
According to the press service of the Majlis, the meeting lasted more than an hour, and the topic of the meeting was the current situation in Crimea.
“The leader of the Crimean Tatars noted the need for the urgent release of all political prisoners of the Kremlin and the lifting of the ban on the entry of representatives of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people into Crimea,” the Mejlis said in a statement.
Erdogan assured Dzhemilev of, as stated, “unquestioning support from the Turkish state.”
“The President of Turkey noted the strength of his position regarding the inviolability of the territorial integrity of Ukraine within the internationally recognized borders. He said that the Turkish authorities are taking measures to prevent Turkish ships from visiting Crimean ports. The President of the Republic of Turkey confirmed his readiness to support the initiative of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people to build a central mosque in Kyiv, which will mark the unity of Muslims in Ukraine,” a message on the Majlis’ website notes.