Milliy Firqa ( crh, Milliy Fırqa, ملی فرقا - ''National Party'', Cyrillic: ''Милли фирка'') was a Muslim

political group A political group is a group consisting of political parties or legislators of aligned ideologies. A technical group is similar to a political group, but with members of differing ideologies. International terms Equivalent terms are used differ ...

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

, which transferred en masse to the

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

s during the

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. Noman Çelebicihan,

Asan Sabri Ayvazov Asan Sabri Ayvazov ( – 17 April 1938) was a Crimean Tatar politician, journalist, writer, educator, and pedagogue in the Russian Empire. Active from the early 1890s until the late 1920s, Ayvazov was a preeminent figure among the Crimean Ta ...

, 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.''The Crimean Tatars: The Diaspora Experience and the Forging of a Nation'' by Brian Glyn Williams, 2001, Brill, Leiden and Boston Soviet authorities banned the party in 1921.

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