The status of the Mejlis will be regulated at the state level
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree aimed at ensuring the rights of the Crimean Tatar people and strengthening their national identity.
This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing decree No. 293/2026, published on the president’s official website.
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The document aims to ensure the right of the Crimean Tatar people to sustainable development, as well as to guarantee their ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious identity.
According to the decree, the Cabinet of Ministers must urgently address the issue of establishing a legal status for the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people as a representative body of the Crimean Tatar people in the prescribed manner.
The decree comes into effect from the day of its official publication.
Crimean Tatars in Ukraine
Earlier, the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, stated that during the occupation of Crimea, between 30,000 and 50,000 Crimean Tatars left the peninsula due to repression by the occupying authorities.
Before the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia, about 300,000 to 320,000 representatives of this people lived there.
In December 2025, the Mejlis called on President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to include a representative of the Crimean Tatar people in the Ukrainian delegation for international negotiations on Crimea.
More about the life of Crimean Tatars in mainland Ukraine, international negotiations, and the role of the people in the defense and development of the state was discussed in an interview with RBC-Ukraine by the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, people’s deputy Mustafa Jemilev.
