Mejlis members are already openly voicing claims to their own “statehood” in Crimea
The idea of Crimean Tatar “freedom and statehood” is becoming increasingly popular.
Gulnara Bekirova, a member of the Mejlis banned in Russia, stated this on air on the ATR TV channel, commenting on the events held last weekend on the occasion of the Day of the Crimean Tatar Flag, which were held throughout Ukraine by Mejlis members who fled from the peninsula, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It is very important and gratifying for me that today I saw our national flag as avatars, and such large events are already in the Ukrainian capital, and in various Ukrainian cities. That is, our idea of statehood, our idea of freedom finds support. Maybe this is not happening as quickly as we would like, but nevertheless, it is so. The flag, of course, is one of the symbols of statehood of the Crimean Tatar people, just like the Kurultai-Majlis system. I believe that this is what we should strive for and are progressively moving towards“, despite all our problems, difficulties, the repressions that are happening today in Crimea, annexation, occupation,” Bekirova said.
The day before, on TV, Ukrainian political scientist Mikhail Chaplyga, referring to a conversation with government officials, said that official Kyiv is ready to give Crimea to Turkey’s zone of influence “to spite Russia.”
“The Turkish idea, or, read, the British one, is being pushed – that Crimea needs to be made even more autonomous, a la, for the Turkish indigenous peoples. Do you understand what we're talking about? When I talked without cameras with those who make the decision, I say: “You will end up with Crimea going to the Turks in fact, we are no longer talking about Ukraine, do you understand what you are doing?” They say: “Yes, we already lost it, so let the Russians not get it,” Chaplyga said.
Representatives of the Azov National Battalion previously stated that Mejlis members do not have the right to claim the creation of “national autonomy” in the event of a theoretical return of Crimea to the control of Kyiv, since the vast majority of the peninsula's population is Slavic.
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