Deportation of Crimean Tatars

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Sürgün (Crimean Tatar and Turkish for "exile") refers to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 to Uzbek SSR. A symbol of Sürgün is a steam engine.

The deportation had began on 17 May 1944 in all Crimean inhabited localities. More than 32,000 NKVD troops participated in this action. 193,865 Crimean Tatars were deported, 151,136 of them to Uzbek SSR, 8,597 to Mari ASSR, 4,286 to Kazakh SSR, the rest 29,846 to the various oblasts of RSFSR.

From May to November 10,105 Crimean Tatars died of starvation in Uzbekistan (7% of deported to Uzbek SSR) . Nearly 30,000 (20%) died in exile during the year and a half by the NKVD data and nearly 46% by the data of the Crimean Tatar activists.

Crimean activists call for the recognition of the Sürgün as genocide [1].