Crimean Tatar

or Crimean Tartar

noun

a member of a Turkic people who lived in the Crimea before emigration to Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries and deportations to Soviet central Asia after World War II.
the Turkic language of the Crimean Tatars.

“Most people are scared and lost,” says Vilora, a 20-year-old economics student, whose family is mixed Russian and Crimean Tatar.

All the staff have gathered together at the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, hundreds of others have come.

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