Ahtem Chiygoz (, , born 14 December 1964, Bulungur,

Uzbek SSR The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (, ), also known as Soviet Uzbekistan, the Uzbek SSR, UzSSR, or simply Uzbekistan and rarely Uzbekia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union. It was governed by the Uzbek branch of the Soviet Communist P ...

) is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar politician. He is the Deputy Chairman of the

Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People () is the single highest executive-representative body of the Crimean Tatars in period between sessions of the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People. The Mejlis is a member institution of the Platform of E ...

, a

People's Deputy of Ukraine A people's deputy of Ukraine (, ) is a member of parliament and legislator elected by Direct election, popular vote to the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine. They are often referred to simply as "deputies". Prior to 1991, the Verkhovna R ...

in the current

convocation A convocation (from the Latin ''wikt:convocare, convocare'' meaning "to call/come together", a translation of the Ancient Greek, Greek wikt:ἐκκλησία, ἐκκλησία ''ekklēsia'') is a group of people formally assembled for a specia ...

, Chairman of the Bakhchysaray regional Mejlis, and delegate to the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People.

Biography

He is a former political prisoner of the Kremlin; following Russia's attempted annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula he was arrested on January 29, 2015, and charged with organization of a rally in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine that took place in

Simferopol Simferopol ( ), also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, but controlled by Russia. It is considered the cap ...

on February 26, 2014. He was freed on October 25, 2017. In the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parli ...

, Chiygoz was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as a deputy for the party

European Solidarity European Solidarity (, ; , YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko. The party with its the ...

. Head of the Subcommittee on Ethnic Policy, Rights of Indigenous Peoples and National Minorities of Ukraine of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the City of Sevastopol, National Minorities and International Relations 0 Currently, in 2024, he is living in Turkey with his family.Комітет з питань прав людини, деокупації та реінтеграції тимчасово окупованих територій у Донецькій, Луганській областях та АР Крим, м. Севастополя, національних меншин і міжнаціональних відносин обговорив питання проведення виїзного засідання на Донбасі
'' Верховна Рада України'' (5 вересня 2019)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chiygoz, Ahtem 1964 births Living people Crimean Tatar independence activists Ukrainian exiles of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class People from Samarqand Region