Milliy Firqa Explained

Milliy Fırqa
Native Name:	ملی فرقا
Leader:	Noman Çelebicihan
Ideology:	Crimean Tatar nationalism Pan-Turkism Jadidism Communism^[1] Galievism^[2]
Founder:	Noman Çelebicihan Asan Sabri Ayvazov Cafer Seydamet Qırımer
Native Name Lang:	crh
Split:	Socialist Revolutionary Party

Milliy Firqa (Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish: Milliy Fırqa, ملی فرقا - National Party, Cyrillic: Милли фирка) was a Muslim political group in Crimea, which transferred en masse to the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.^[3] Noman Çelebicihan, Asan Sabri Ayvazov, and Cafer Seydamet Qırımer established the group in 1917. At the time, they eventually seized control of the state in an attempt to foster a Crimean Tatar identity.^[4] Soviet authorities banned the party in 1921.

Notes and References

1. Sultan Galiev: Le père de la révolution tiers-mondiste, Bennigsen. Alexandre, pg. 234
2. Sultan Galiev: Le père de la révolution tiers-mondiste, Bennigsen. Alexandre, pg. 234
3. The Islamic Threat to the Soviet State by Aelexandre Bennigsen and Marie Boxup, 1984, Services Book Club, Lahore
4. The Crimean Tatars: The Diaspora Experience and the Forging of a Nation by Brian Glyn Williams, 2001, Brill, Leiden and Boston