Discussion with Elmaz Alimova and Martin-Oleksand Kisly on the history, ethnogenesis and anti-colonial struggle of Crimean Tatars

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.