Daniyal Ametov

Daniyal Ametov is a Crimean Tatar land-squatting activist in the Ukraine, and a member of the NGO Advet.^[1]

The goal of Ametov and his organisation is to restore land rights in Crimea to the Tartar people, 200,000 of whom were forcibly deported to Central Asia in 1944 by Joseph Stalin, under suspicion of being Nazi collaborators. The Crimean Tartars were allowed to return to their homeland towards the end of the Soviet era, but in many cases their lands had been redistributed in their absence. Some members of the community have taken to constructing temporary houses on land they wish to reclaim, without legal permission.^[2]

References

1. ^ Valery Temnenko, Zeyneb Temnenko. Crimea's Three Basic Ethnic Components: A Pledge for Peace. Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales, Programa CEI & Países Bálticos
2. ^ Matthew Colin. Crimean Tatars fear for future. Al Jazeera English, August 8, 2010