1. Mustafa Dzhemilev is a member of the Crimean Tatar National Movement and a former Soviet dissident.
16 Facts About Mustafa Dzhemilev
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Mustafa Dzhemilev was born to a Crimean Tatar family on 13 November 1943 in Ay-Serez, Crimea, then Russian SFSR, though at the time under Nazi occupation.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev was only six months old when his family, with the rest of the Crimean Tatar population, was deported by Soviet authorities in May 1944, soon after Soviet forces retook the peninsula.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev grew up in exile, in the Uzbek SSR.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev thus began the arduous and long struggle for the recognition of the rights of Crimean Tatars to return to their homeland.
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Between 1966 and 1986, Mustafa Dzhemilev was arrested six times for anti-Soviet activities and served time in Soviet prisons and labor camps and lived under surveillance.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev is remembered for going on the longest hunger strike in the history of human rights movements.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev was expelled in the second year from the Tashkent engineers of irrigation and reclamation of agriculture "for unworthy behavior", namely the writing of historical work on the history of Turkic culture in the Crimea before the elimination of the Crimean Khanate from "nationalist" positions.
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In early November 2011, Mustafa Dzhemilev announced his retirement from politics.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev is a member of the Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk, Luhansk Regions and Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev declared that the Mejlis had a stance identical with Turkey in considering the referendum illegal and claimed that the results were manipulated by Russia.
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Russian authorities then issued an arrest warrant for Mustafa Dzhemilev and placed him on the federal wanted list, allegedly for trying to illegally cross the border when he attempted to return to Crimea.
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Mustafa Dzhemilev has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times, by various NGOs and persons.
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On 14 April 2014, Mustafa Dzhemilev was awarded the Order of the Republic by Turkish president Abdullah Gul.
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On 3 June 2014, Mustafa Dzhemilev was awarded as the first recipient of the Solidarity Prize, by the Republic of Poland.
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For more information about Mustafa Dzhemilev and related links to his interviews and writings, see the Web site of the International Committee for Crimea.