Talk:Crimean Tatars in Romania

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In the 1930s, the Fascist Iron Guard terrorised the Tatars and Turks, and 37,000 Tatars left the region for Turkey in the late 1930s. In 1938, 22,141 Tatars remained in Dobruja.

do you have any source for this? Anonimu 20:38, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Huge mistakes ! This article must be revisited !

Mistakes: 1- "A unique Crimean Tatar national identity in Dobruja began to emerge in the last quarter of the 20th century." Wrong ! The Crimean Tatar national identity began to emerge well into the 19th century, not in the last quarter of the 20th century.

2- "In the 1920s Dobruja persisted as the primary destination for refugees escaping the Soviets. Romania had not yet fully incorporated Dobruja and Tatars were relatively free to organize" Wrong ! Romania FULLY INCORPORATED Dobruja since 1878 ! In the "20, Dobruja was a Romanian province with a large Romanian majority, and all the institutions and civilian life was like in the rest of the Romanian Kingdom. The Tatars were relatively free to organize because Romania was a free democratic state and the only few limitations to the Tatar organisations where the survey of the Secret Service who did not want that the Tatars developed terorist activities agains USSR, drawing Romania into conflicts with the Soviets. The Tatar leadership complied and restrained themself from any terorist and non-democratic activities, thus enjoyng full freedom of speach and organisation inside democratic Romania.

3- "According to Nermin Eren that number increased to around 40,000 by the 1990s. In 2005 The Democratic Union of Muslim Tatar-Turks claimed that there are 50,000 Tatars in Romania, believing the census estimate is artificially low because most Tatars identified themselves as Turks."

Problem: Mr. Nermin Eren might be right. But there is another insidious problem touching the Tatar community in Romania. The Tatars agreed to a joint political and cultural representation together with the Turks of Romania. The Turks are the recipient of the significant support from the Turkish Republic which is pressing the Tatar population to turkify, to renounce the Tatar identity and become FULL TURKS. Some Tatars are actually agreeing, some not. Therefore, in the late "90 and during the first years of the 21th century, you can witness several trilateral confrontations between: a) pro-Turkish Romanian Tatars, b) pro-Tatar Romanian Tatars and b) Romanian Turks (sponsored by Turkey). The Romanian Government and institutions did interviene only in 2 ocasions, when the debate degenerated in small scale riots between thorse 3 factions. The riots took place inside and around the headquarters of the Turkish-Tatar Muslim Democratic Union of Romania, in the city of Constanta