Sürgün

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Sürgün is the Crimean Tatar term for the 1944 mass deportation of Crimean Tatars by Soviet authorities, a defining trauma in the community’s modern history.

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Sürgün canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime against humanity
historical event
mass deportation
alsoKnownAs deportation of the Crimean Tatars
appliesToEthnicGroup Crimean Tatars NERFINISHED
characterizedAs collective punishment
commemoratedOn May 18
country Soviet Union
date 1944-05-18
deathTollEstimate between 20% and 46% of deported population
tens of thousands
deportedTo Kazakh SSR NERFINISHED
Russian SFSR NERFINISHED
Siberia NERFINISHED
Ural region NERFINISHED
Uzbek SSR NERFINISHED
effect ban on return to Crimea for decades
destruction of Crimean Tatar communities in Crimea
ethnic cleansing of Crimean Tatars from Crimea
long-term exile of Crimean Tatars
loss of property and land
suppression of Crimean Tatar culture
endDate 1944-05-20
followedBy Crimean Tatar return movement after late 1980s
hasSignificance central trauma in modern Crimean Tatar history
key element of Crimean Tatar national identity
languageOfTerm Crimean Tatar NERFINISHED
legalStatus recognized as genocide by Ukraine
recognized as genocide by several parliaments and bodies
location Crimea NERFINISHED
nameInLanguage Crimean Tatar NERFINISHED
numberOfPeopleAffected approximately 200000 Crimean Tatars
over 180000 Crimean Tatars
opposedBy Crimean Tatar national movement NERFINISHED
orderedBy Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED
partOf Soviet ethnic deportations
Stalinist deportations NERFINISHED
perpetrator NKVD NERFINISHED
Soviet authorities NERFINISHED
reasonGivenByAuthorities alleged collaboration with Nazi Germany
refersTo deportation of Crimean Tatars
startDate 1944-05-18
timePeriod Stalin era NERFINISHED
World War II
transportMethod cattle cars
freight trains
usedIn Crimean Tatar collective memory
Crimean Tatar historiography

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