Turkish President's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin shared his Twitter account on the 75th anniversary of the Crimean Tatars' exile.
According to Eurasia Diary, a spokesman wrote:
"We have never forgotten that more than 400,000 Crimean Tatars, who were exiled on May 18, 1944, and thousands of our brothers who lost their lives. Turkey, which does not recognize the annexation of Crimea, will continue to be with the Crimean Tatars."
On April 13, 1944, the USSR armed forces gained superiority over the military units of Fascist Germany and pulled them out of the Crimean Peninsula.
On May 10, 1944, Lavrenti Beria officially proposed to Stalin that to exile the Crimean Tatars to the border regions to the internal parts of the alliance - Central Asia blaming them as a “traitor” for fighting against USSR on the German side to fight the USSR.
The deportation plan is fully prepared which will soon cover the 18-22 May.
In the morning of May 18th, the Crimean Tatars were forced to resettle.