Indigenous Crimean Tatars say their homeland is part of Ukraine, not Russia

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Crimean Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group, predominantly Muslim, and they have called Crimea their homeland for centuries. Large numbers of Tatars were forcibly relocated to Central Asia by the Soviet Union after World War II. And many returned to Crimea decades later. Now, Tatars who fled after Russia’s 2014 invasion and illegal annexation of Crimea, say they will one day return. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports from Kyiv. 

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