Ablâziz Veliyev (, romanized as Ablyaziz Veliev; born 25 October 1939) is a Crimean Tatar writer, poet, academic, and historian. He has written many books about Crimean Tatar soldiers of the

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during

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, especially ones who were nominated for the title

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but received a lower award instead.

Biography

He was born in Crimea on 23 or 25 October 1939 in Koz village, Sudak district, Crimea. His father, Veli Mustafayev, was killed in action during World War II when the Nazis sank the ship he was being transported to the front on. As a Crimean Tatar, he and his mother were

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from Crimea as a young child along with the rest of the Crimean Tatars. Growing up in exile, he attended school in

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of the

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, which he graduated from in 1957. He began writing articles for local newspapers; he took a break from writing to serve in the

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, and after serving in the army he worked at a textile plant in

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. There, he began writing to the "Voice of Weavers" newspaper. After

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was promoted to the position of deputy editor in chief at the newspaper

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after

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retired, Veliyev was offered the position but declined at the time because he was not as fluent in the Crimean Tatar language at the time, but ended up getting the position after other people insisted that he accept. He was a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. After working at Lenin Bayrağı, he worked at Yıldız magazine. He worked in many literary positions, and after the fall of the Soviet Union he moved to Crimea; he became a lecturer at the Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University in 2002. As of 2019, 79 of his books were published.

Selected works

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References

Works cited

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