Crimean Tatar social activist: Statements about 20 thousand who left for Ukraine are a lie
Statements about 20 thousand Crimean Tatars who left for Ukraine after the reunification of the peninsula with Russia are a lie, said Eskender Bilyalov, a member of the Russian Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations and head of the public organization Inkishaf, on the Millet TV channel.
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“When they say that 20 thousand Crimean Tatars left for Ukraine, they are lying, nothing of the kind. At most, 3-4 thousand left, of which half were students who were supposed to finish their studies,” he said.
Bilyalov criticized the participants of the so-called. blockade of Crimea.
“Lenur Islyamov encourages 16-year-old children to go there - I think no parent would let their child go there. What will they get there? We lived in Ukraine for 23 years,” he said.
“I’m afraid the time will come when the Ukrainian people will throw out this Ukrainian junta - Poroshenko, Yatsenyuk, Groysman. Let Ukrainians think seriously about who is leading them. And I’m afraid that then they will accuse us that the Crimean Tatars made a food blockade, that the Crimean Tatars made an energy and water blockade,” the social activist added.
“In 2014, I called Mustafa Agha and said that the canal was blocked, and 70% of Crimean Tatars are engaged in agriculture!” – Bilyalov also recalled.
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