Ahtem Chiygoz
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Ahtem Chiygoz | |
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Ахтем Чийгоз | |
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| Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People | |
| Assumed office 2007 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| 9th convocation | |
| Assumed office August 29, 2019 | |
| Constituency | European Solidarity, No.8 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 December 1964 |
| Citizenship | Ukraine |
Ahtem Chiygoz (Crimean Tatar: Ахтем Зейтулла огълу Чийгоз, romanized: Ahtem Zeytulla oğlu Çiygoz; Ukrainian: Ахтем Зейтуллайович Чийгоз, romanized: Achtem Zejtullajovyč Čyjhoz; born 14 December 1964[1]) is a Crimean Tatar politician.
He was the Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People[2] starting 2008,[1][3] and a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the convocation of the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada,[4][failed verification][1] Chairman of the Bakhchysaray regional Mejlis in 2002,[1] and delegate to the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People.
Biography
[edit]He is a former political prisoner of the Kremlin; following Russia's attempted annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula[5] he was arrested on January 29, 2015, and charged with organization of a rally in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine that took place in Simferopol on February 26, 2014.[6] He was freed on October 25, 2017.[7]
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Chiygoz was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as a deputy for the party European Solidarity.[8]
His other positions include Head of the Subcommittee on Ethnopolitics, Rights of Indigenous Peoples and National Minorities of Ukraine of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the City of Sevastopol, National Minorities and International Relations.[1]
As of 2024, he was living in Turkey with his family.[9]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "Chiygoz Akhtem, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people". Archived from the original on 2023-02-24.
- ↑ "Deputies Chairman оf Mejlis". qtmm.org. Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
- ↑ "Akhtem Chiygoz, Deputy Chairman of Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People: Time has come to form international platform for de-occupation of Crimea". Ukrinform. 2018-08-01.
- ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". itd.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
- ↑ "Crimea is Ukraine". U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. 2020-02-27. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
- ↑ ""February 26" Case: Resistance and Punishment". CrimeaSOS. Archived from the original on 2017-06-14. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
- ↑ "Crimean Tatar Leaders 'Freed,' Fly To Turkey". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 26 October 2017. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
- ↑ Чийгоз Ахтем: Народный депутат Верховной Рады IX созыва (Европейская солидарность)
- ↑ Комітет з питань прав людини, деокупації та реінтеграції тимчасово окупованих територій у Донецькій, Луганській областях та АР Крим, м. Севастополя, національних меншин і міжнаціональних відносин обговорив питання проведення виїзного засідання на Донбасі Archived 2019-09-15 at the Wayback Machine Верховна Рада України (5 вересня 2019)
External links
[edit]- "Chiygoz Akhtem, Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people". Archived from the original on 2023-02-24.
