Milli Firka (NGO)

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Milli Firka (Cyrillic Милли фирка, lit. People's Party ), is a Crimean Tatar non-governmental organization founded in 2006 . It is in opposition to the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people . During the Crimean crisis in 2014, Milli Firka sided with the Russian side.

history

In the course of the founding of the People's Republic of Crimea in 1917 after the February Revolution , the Crimean Tatars founded their own party called Milli Firka , which was banned again during the Russian Civil War .

In July 2006, a number of Crimean Tatar activists founded an organization of the same name and claimed the successor to the historic Milli Firka for themselves. However, it was not recognized as an official non-governmental organization by the Ukrainian government until March 7, 2007, because, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice , the statutes of Milli Firka were partially “inconsistent with current legislation.” A founding member and the current chairman of the organization is Vasvi Abduraimov.

At the beginning of August 2008, Milli Firka and another Crimean Tatar NGO named Namus appealed to the Crimean Administrative Court against a ministerial ordinance submitted by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education to prohibit the teaching of regional languages ​​in Ukrainian schools.

During the parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2007 , members of Milli Firka took part in the establishment of election commissions for Blok Juliji Tymoshenko . In the 2010 presidential election , however, Milli Firka called on the Crimean Tatars not to support any presidential candidate. This approach was seen by some prominent members of the organization as contradicting what led them to leave the Milli Firka.

Since the Ukrainian government under Viktor Yanukovych to cooperate with the pro- EU -eingestellten Mejlis refused, they worked together instead preferred in Crimean affairs with the Milli Firka. The representative body of the Crimean Tatars, which consisted largely of members of the Mejlis, was reduced in August 2010 by a decree by President Yanukovych. Many members of the representative body from the ranks of the Mejlis were replaced by members of the Milli Firka.

Since the early 1990s, the Mejlis has organized annual meetings on May 18 to commemorate the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 . Under the anti-Tatar Prime Minister of Crimea Anatoly Mohiljow , the Simferopol city ​​council declared the May 18 meeting forbidden on February 25, 2013. The mejlis then threatened protests. Meanwhile, the Crimean authorities announced that they had accepted a proposal by Milli Firka to have the meeting organized by her instead. In April Mohiljow announced that there would be two meetings on May 18: one organized by the Mejlis and one by the Milli Firka. The mejlis, who opposed a double gathering, called on the international Crimean Tatar diaspora to protest, which resulted in several Crimean Tatar communities planning demonstrations in front of Ukrainian embassies in several European capitals on May 18 . As a result, the Milli Firka announced that it would neither hold its own meeting on May 18, nor join the meeting of the Mejlis.

During the Euromaidan protests, the Milli Firka, in contrast to the Mejlis, sided with President Viktor Yanukovych and the anti-Maidan movement.

During the Crimean crisis , in contrast to the Mejlis, which boycotted the referendum on the status of Crimea , the Milli Firka announced that the Crimean Tatars would take part in the vote. The chairman of the organization Abduraimov made several appearances on Russian television in which he had spoken out in favor of the annexation of Crimea to Russia.

On May 11th, the Russian Defense Ministry awarded three members of the Milli Firka medals for their contribution to the "Return of Crimea." By a decree of President Vladimir Putin , the chairman of the organization Abdurimov received a second degree "For Services to the Motherland."

Abduraimov attended the first meeting of representatives of the Crimean Tatar community with President Putin on May 16, 2014. Putin had preferred to speak to the representatives in opposition to the Mejlis first.

Views

The statutes of the organization include the question of state independence, the recognition of the genocide of the deported Crimean Tatars and compensation for it. According to its statutes, the relationship between Milli Firka and the Ukrainian state depends on Ukraine's stance on the self-determination of the Crimean Tatars. As long as it does not recognize this, the Milli Firka would regard Ukraine as a "foreign neocolonial power ".

The chairman of the organization Abduraimov sent an open letter to Russia and Tatarstan during the Caucasus War in 2008 asking for Russian troops to be sent to Crimea to "protect the indigenous and other numerically small ethnic minorities from the genocidal policies of Ukraine."

In an interview on February 27, 2014, in the wake of the Crimean crisis, Abduraimov recommended that Russia take more active action in Crimea if it “doesn't want to lose Ukraine as a friendly country and have a NATO border near Smolensk .” He referred to the separatist efforts Crimea as an "attempt by the people of Crimea to sweep away the evil Bandera supporters who are funded and armed by cold pragmatists from Washington and Brussels ." He also criticized the media for allegedly portraying the situation in Crimea as such as if all Crimean Tatars were closed to the Euromaidan movement. In an interview on March 14, 2014, Abduraimov justified his preferred connection to Russia with the fact that, in his opinion, all Slavs and Turkic peoples should live in a common country called " Eurasia ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Милли Фирка стала общественной организацией . maidanua.org. March 16, 2007. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Growing Sense of Polarization and Escalating Tensions in Crimea Ahead of 69th Anniversary of Crimean Tatar Deportation . Eurasia Daily Monitor. May 17, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c Milli Firka members got Russian state awards . qha.com.ua. May 12, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ Analysis: The Crimean Tatars in the Ukraine Crisis . bpb.de. November 13, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b Татары Крыма просят РФ помочь в битве с "бандеровской нечистью" ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . islamnews.ru. February 27, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.islamnews.ru
  6. ↑ a b c Крымские татары на референдум придут . milli-firka.org March 14, 2014. Accessed July 29, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b "Милли фирка" в законе ( Memento from November 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). jankoy.org. March 27, 2007. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  8. ^ Namus elders council and NGO Milli Firqa oppose linguistic discrimination in Ukraine . qha.com.ua. August 5, 2008. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  9. ↑ Several members leave Milli Fırqa ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . qha.com.ua. January 19, 2010. Retrieved July 29, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / qha.com.ua
  10. ↑ a b Encouraging a Pan-Islamic Caliphate in Crimea? . The Ukrainian Week. April 12, 2013. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  11. ↑ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ - Питання Ради представників кримськотатарського народу Verkhovna Rada (website). August 26, 2010.
  12. ↑ Andrew Wilson: Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West . Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN 0300211597 . P. 107.
  13. ↑ Kırım Tatar Milli Meclisine tam destek qha.com. May 5, 2013.
  14. ↑ a b c Moscow's Crimean Tatar problem . openDemocracy.net. June 19, 2014. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
  15. ^ Meeting with Crimean Tatar community representatives . eng.kremlin.ru May 16, 2014. Accessed May 8, 2014.

literature

  • Michał Czepczyński: Szanse i zagrożenia dla funkcjonowania partii etnicznej na obszarze postsocjalistycznym na przykładzie organizacji Tatarów krymskich - Milli Firka (in German: opportunities and threats for ethnic parties in the post-socialist period: the example of Crimean Tatar organization Milli Firka ), in: Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, no. 815, volume 2014, pp. 107–121 (in Polish). Available here. Summary in English.