Elmaz Asan is a journalist working at ATR, the Crimean Tatar TV channel, and a PhD student specialising in the history of the illegal Russian invasion of Crimea, both in 1783 and in 2014. She is also a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge from 2022 to 2023, where her research project focuses on ‘British travellers on the Russification of Crimea at the turn of 18-19th centuries’.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionCrimean Tatars face ongoing persecution under Russian occupation
Today, simply existing as a Crimean Tatar can result in imprisonment for years on end