ANKARA (Sputnik) — The blockade of Crimea imposed by Ukrainian lawmakers is not in the interest of Crimean Tatars, an adviser to the head of the Crimean Tatars Cultural Federation in Turkey said Sunday.
Earlier on Sunday, Ukraine suspended food supply to Crimea. The move was initiated by former leader of an organization representing an ethnic minority group, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Mustafa Dzhemilev and its current leader Refat Chubarov, who are also lawmakers at the Ukraine's parliament.
"Today, former Crimean politicians, like Dzhemilev and Chubarov, instigate dangerous game against their fellow countrymen, today a blockade of the peninsula, intending to starve them, began," Yagiz Kizilkaya said.
The federation condemns such inhumane and unlawful actions, Kizilkaya added.
In March 2014, 96 percent of Crimean residents voted for rejoining Russia at a referendum following a declaration of independence from Ukraine.
