Crimean Tatar Women: 9 Myths Debunked About a Deported People Who Never Gave Up - CQMI blog - Service for Dating
Crimean Tatar women: 9 myths debunked by Antoine Monnier, director of CQMI international matchmaking agency. The 1944 deportation, the Crimean Khanate, Sunni Islam, Ukrainian identity: what you really need to know before meeting a serious Crimean Tatar woman.
Antoine Monnier's insight:
Crimean Tatar Women: The People Everyone Confuses With Another
Say "Tatar" and most people think of Tatarstan and Kazan, on the Volga. Wrong people. There's an entirely different Tatar nation, born on the shores of the Black Sea: the Crimean Tatars. And their story deserves to be told â not to make a political statement, but because ignoring the history of a woman you claim to want to marry would be dishonest.
Crimean Tatars descend from Turkic Kipchak and Cuman tribes, blended with the Greek and Genoese populations already living on the peninsula. Starting in 1441, the Giray dynasty â direct descendants of Genghis Khan â founded the Crimean Khanate, a sovereign state that dominated the Black Sea for more than three centuries, long before any Russian presence. It wasn't until 1783, under Catherine the Great, that Imperial Russia annexed the peninsula.
But the most devastating chapter of their history is the SĂŒrgĂŒn: in just three days, May 18-20, 1944, Stalin had roughly 190,000 Crimean Tatars â almost entirely women, children, and the elderly â deported to Uzbekistan, the Urals, and Siberia. Nearly half died en route or in the months that followed. The people weren't allowed back on their homeland until the late 1980s. Since 2015, several parliaments â Ukraine, Canada, Poland, the Netherlands, among others â have recognized this deportation as genocide. Singer Jamala, herself Crimean Tatar, won Eurovision 2016 with "1944," a song about exactly this tragedy.
Today, after Russia's 2014 annexation and the 2016 ban on the Mejlis (their representative body), most Crimean Tatars live in mainland Ukraine â Kyiv, Lviv â or in the diaspora.
So who is a Crimean Tatar woman today? Sunni Muslim, Turkic-speaking, a Ukrainian citizen through and through, heir to a fascinating dynastic history and a painful family memory â but above all, a woman who, like the vast majority of Ukrainian women, is looking for a serious man to build a lasting marriage with, not a passing fling.
In our new article, we debunk 9 myths: the mix-up with Tatars from Tatarstan, clichés about Islam, the "just a Russian province" myth, and much more.
Read it on the CQMI blog đ cqmi.ca/en/russian-dating-news-cqmi
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