Zelenskyy awards Crimean Tatar leader Dzhemiliev with Hero of Ukraine
Pravda Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy granted the title of Hero of Ukraine to MP Mustafa Dzhemiliev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, and congratulated him on his 80th birthday.
Source: Zelenskyy; Refat Chubarov, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people
Quote from Zelenskyy: “Today Mustafa Dzhemiliev turned 80 years old. I congratulated him, thanked him for defending the freedom of Ukraine and the Crimean Tatar people and awarded him the title of Hero of Ukraine.
He is a strong, dignified and courageous man. A life dedicated to protecting the freedom of nations. I wished him what we all wish: victory for Ukraine and freedom for all parts of our country. And we are doing everything to bring the liberation of Crimea closer.”
Details: Refat Chubarov, the Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, also reported this (Mejlis is a representative body of the Crimean Tatar people – ed.).
For reference: Mustafa Dzhemiliev is a Crimean Tatar politician and public figure, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars in 1991-2013, and a former Soviet dissident. Because of his protests and opposition to the deportation and prohibition of the comeback of Crimean Tatars to their homeland, Dzhemiliev was repeatedly imprisoned in the USSR and tortured.
In 2014-2019, he served as the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for the Affairs of the Crimean Tatar People. In 2015, Dzhemiliev was decorated with the Order of the People’s Hero of Ukraine. In July 2019, he was elected as a Member of Parliament from the European Solidarity party.
Dzhemiliev made a lot of efforts in diplomatic negotiations on the liberation of Crimea, in particular with the Turkish authorities, the release of Ukrainian political prisoners and the fight for human rights in the occupied Crimea. In 2022, Dzhemiliev was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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