Author: Hadji Emirali Ablaev

Crimea is a land that we loved in absentia, according to our grandparents and parents, all because we were born in a foreign country after the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people from Crimea in 1944. My grandmother always told us about the Crimean sights, the sea, the mountains and the beautiful native air. I was very young when I decided to return to my native land and immerse myself in reality in the ideas that I had formed from the stories of my ancestors. It was 1987 when the journey home began. Upon arrival in Crimea, I immersed myself…