Milliy Firqa

Milliy Firqa (Crimean Tatar: ملی فرقا, romanized: Milliy Fırqa, cyrillized: Милли фирка, pronounced [mɪlˈlij fɯɾˈqɑ]; lit. 'National Party') was a Muslim political group in Crimea, which transferred en masse to the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.^[3] Noman Çelebicihan, Asan Sabri Ayvazov, and Cafer Seydamet Qırımer established the group in 1917. At the time, they eventually seized control of the state in an attempt to foster a Crimean Tatar identity.^[4] Soviet authorities banned the party in 1921.