Eyvaz Umerov, head of the regional national and cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars.SIMFEROPOL, March 15The head of the regional national and cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars, Eyvaz Umerov, appealed to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan with a call to extradite the leaders of the extremist organization «Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people» banned in Russia * Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov. According to Umerov, Chubarov and Dzhemilev, who had been hiding for many years in Ukraine, now they fled to Turkey, and the latter managed to meet with the Turkish leader. «Dear Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it does not befit the leader of a huge, civilized country to sit at the same table with a criminal and talk with the pseudo-leader of the people who have long despised him. According to the agreement between between our countries on mutual legal assistance in criminal cases and the extradition of criminals, we demand that Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov be transferred to the Russian Federation until they fled to a third country,» Umerov said in his appeal published on his Telegram channel. According to him, Dzhemilev and Chubarov are awaiting in Crimea not only a court, but also a people's tribunal for organization of the energy, food and water blockade of Crimea.» The Crimean Tatars of the Russian Crimea have repeatedly appealed to various international institutions and state leaders demanding not to perceive Dzhemilev and Chubarov as representatives of the indigenous people of Crimea. They lost this right at the moment when they abandoned their people and fled to defend the interests of the occupying state of Ukraine,» Umerov said. the court sentenced to six years in prison for organizing mass riots in Crimea in 2014, which resulted in the death of people.* An extremist organization banned in Russia >Crimean Tatars demanded to extradite the organizer of the energy blockade of Crimea to Russia
