Crimean Blockade Organizer Launches Guerrilla ‘Tatar Battalion’ with ‘Turkish Help’

• Is this Russian propaganda? I have no idea. What we can conclude is that Russia, Turkey ‘disagreements’ will become worse.
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• Crimean Blockade Organizer Launches Guerrilla ‘Tatar Battalion’ with ‘Turkish Help’
  by https://www.rt.com/news/ , 27 Dec 2015  
  A self-proclaimed Crimean Tatar leader and the coordinator of the peninsula’s land blockade and power blackout, has claimed that the Turkish defense ministry is helping with the formation of a Tatar battalion tasked with sabotage.
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  In a set of interviews to Ukrainian media, Lenur Islyamov who represents the unregistered organization “Majlis of Crimean Tatars”, announced that the Turkey is taking an active role in the formation of the “Tatar battalion” tasked with “protecting the Crimean frontier” and carrying out attacks inside the peninsula.
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  “While the Ukrainian Defense Ministry still only scratches its head, the Turkish Defense Ministry has already begun supporting us,” said Islyamov, adding that Ankara has so far provided the newly-assembled radical force with boots and uniforms.
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  The volunteer battalion is allegedly relying on “public donations” so far, but soon, Islyamov hopes, the paramilitary structure will be incorporated into Ukraine’s defense forces.
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  “We now have more than a hundred people who have already entered the battalion as volunteers, but we hope that after all the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, will create and allow the Crimean Tatars to have their own national battalion within the armed forces,”Islyamov told 112 Ukraine TV channel.
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  Islyamov hopes that the new force of around 560 fighters will serve as a “Tatar navy seals” battalion. The main task of the paramilitary unit will be guerrilla warfare and acts of sabotage inside the Crimea.
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