Gulizar Abdullayeva, Crimean Tatar Activist, Passes Away at 78

On March 9, 2025, Gulizar Abdullayeva, an activist of the Crimean Tatar national movement, educator, teacher who brought up many generations of young people in love with their native culture and language, passed away in the occupied Crimea at the age of 78.

This was reported by the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people.

Gulizar-oja was born on June 12, 1947 in the village of Aim, Andijan region (Uzbekistan), where her parents were deported. She was the sixth child in the family of Abduldzhemil and Mahfure Mustafayev, who had seven children, who later became active members of the Crimean Tatar national movement.

The activist graduated from Samarkand State University with a degree in English. In 1976, she and her family returned to Crimea, where they settled in the village of Zuya, Karasuvbazar district. However, in 1979, three Dzhemilev families-Gulizar herself, her sister Dilyara, and their father Abduldzhemil-ag-were deported from Crimea to the Krasnodar Territory. Only in 1989 were they able to return to their homeland.

For many years, Gulizar Abdullayeva devoted herself to teaching English, working at a Crimean Tatar school in Bakhchisarai and at a boarding school for gifted children in Tankove village. Her tireless work, wisdom and sincere dedication to her work will remain in the memory of her students, colleagues and all those who had the honor of knowing her personally.

Earlier in Crimea, one of the elders, Reshat Belialov, the father of political prisoner Memet Belialov, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Russian occupation authorities, died. Also, Arsen Alchykov, a veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement, a political prisoner of the USSR, a delegate to the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people of several convocations, passed away at the age of 84. And in August 2024, the heart of Bronislav Danilovich, the father of Irina Danilovich, a civilian journalist sentenced to 7 years in prison on charges of "possession of an explosive device," stopped beating.

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