Timur Şahmurad oğlu Daĝcı (Crimean Tatar Cyrillic: Тимур Шахмурад огълу Дагъджы, Russian: Тимур Шахмурадович Дагджи, romanized as Timur Shakhmuradovich Dagdzhi; 19 May 1932 – 5 February 2022) was a Crimean Tatar journalist and newspaper editor. In his youth he was involved in the Crimean Tatar rights movement, but later became active in the Communist Party and actively promoted the Mubarek resettlement scheme intended to resettle Crimean Tatars in the Uzbek desert.
Biography
editDaĝcı was born to a Crimean Tatar family on 19 May 1932;[a] at the age of fifteen he began working as a car mechanic.[1] Although he graduated from evening school, he initially could not get accepted into journalism school since he was Crimean Tatar.[1] However, he managed to get into the Oriental Faculty of Tashkent University.[3] He started a journalism career in 1956, originally working for a local newspaper in Samarkand but later moved to Tashkent to work on projects in the Crimean Tatar language. He became active in the national movement in 1964,[1] and in 1966 he was arrested for "inciting national discord."[4] He was imprisoned in Lefortovo Prison.[5] According to his accounts, during interrogation, he was very strategic in his responses, avoiding implicating other Crimean Tatars while frequently quoting Marx and Lenin in response to interrogator questions and never capitulated to the interrogators, while Dzhemilev says that he capitulated.[6]
After being released from prison he worked in journalism, and from 1982 to 1985 he was the head editor of the newspaper Lenin Bayrağı.[2] Deviating from the opinions of other Crimean Tatars, he supported the Mubarek zone scheme for rooting Crimean Tatars in the Uzbek desert instead of returning to Crimea, so he sent his son to live there as an example for other Crimean Tatars[7][8] and did a lot of work for the Communist Party.[2] He was very critical of the Dzhemilev faction of the Crimean Tatar rights movement.[9] Nevertheless, he was very critical of the Soviet state for denying the existence of Crimean Tatars as a distinct ethnic group, which he described as genocidal in his memoirs.[10] Despite his support for the failed Mubarek project that encouraged Crimean Tatars to stay in Uzbekistan, he moved to his homeland Crimea in 1989.[1]
See also
editFootnotes
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e "Тимур Дагджи (1932)". gasprinskylibrary.ru (in Russian). 9 September 2016.
- ^ a b c Крымские татары предъявят счет России 2005.
- ^ Seidametov 2023.
- ^ Uehling 2004, p. 149.
- ^ Крымские татары: из истории возвращения 2007.
- ^ Uehling 2004, p. 150.
- ^ Guboglo 1998, p. 657.
- ^ Guboglo 1992, p. 122.
- ^ Olcott, Hajda & Olcott 2019, p. 536-537.
- ^ Dagdzhi 2008, p. 175.
Bibliography
edit- Allworth, Edward; Asia, Columbia University Center for the Study of Central (1988). Tatars of the Crimea: Their Struggle for Survival : Original Studies from North America, Unofficial and Official Documents from Czarist and Soviet Sources. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-0758-7.
- Chilingirova, Gulnara (13 May 2022). "Хайри ДАГДЖИ: Отец был глыба, до конца своих дней – борец!". goloskrimanew.ru (in Russian). No. 19.
- Dagdzhi, Timur (2008). Сталинский геноцид и этноцид крымскотатарского народа: документы, факты, комментарии [Stalin's genocide and ethnocide of the Crimean Tatar people: documents, facts, comments] (in Russian). Simferopol city printing house.
- Guboglo, Mikhail (1992). Крымскотатарское национальное движение: Документы, материалы, хроника (in Russian). Russian academy of Sciences. pp. 188–189.
- Guboglo, Mikhail (1998). Языки этнической мобилизации (in Russian). Языки русской культуры. ISBN 978-5-7859-0065-3.
- Nagayev, Safter (2005). Гъурбетте къалгъан эдждатларымызнынъ хатырасы: весикъалы эссе-икяелер (in Crimean Tatar). Simferopol: Crimean State Educational and Pedagogical Publishing House.
- Olcott, Martha; Hajda, Lubomyr; Olcott, Anthony (2019). The Soviet Multinational State. Routledge.
- Seidametov, Eldar (15 January 2023). "Роль Айше Сеитмуратовой в борьбе за возвращение крымских татар на родину". Avdet.
- Uehling, Greta (2004). Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tatars' Deportation and Return. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4039-8127-1.
- Williams, Brian (2021). The Crimean Tatars: The Diaspora Experience and the Forging of a Nation. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-49128-1.
- Биз - къырымлармыз!: Мы - крымцы! [We are Crimeans!] (in Crimean Tatar). Aqmescit. 2006. ISBN 9663541180.
- "Крымские татары: из истории возвращения". day.kiyv.ua (in Russian). No. 114. 13 July 2007.
- "Крымские татары предъявят счет России". day.kyiv.ua (in Russian). No. 175. 26 September 2005.
- "Опасное слово: На Безсмертного подали в суд за "ассимиляцию"". day.kiyv.ua (in Russian). No. 46. 22 March 2006.