Crimean Tatar

or Crimean Tartar

noun

1. a member of a Turkic people who lived in the Crimea before emigration to Anatolia in the 18th and 19th centuries and deportations to Soviet central Asia after World War II.
2. the Turkic language of the Crimean Tatars.

Example Sentences

“Most people are scared and lost,” says Vilora, a 20-year-old economics student, whose family is mixed Russian and Crimean Tatar.

From The Daily Beast

All the staff have gathered together at the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, hundreds of others have come.

From The Daily Beast