Gulnara Tasimovna Bekirova (russian: Гульнара Тасимовна Бекирова; born 21 February 1968) is a Crimean Tatar historian, writer, and member of

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. In her work as a historian she was a consultant in the creation of the movie "

Haytarma Haytarma ( crh, Qaytarma — ''«return», «homecoming»'') is a 2013 Ukrainian period drama film. It portrays Crimean Tatar flying ace and Hero of the Soviet Union Amet-khan Sultan against the background of the 1944 deportation of the Crimean ...

". As a writer, she has produced numerous papers and books about interethnic relations of deported Crimean Tatars and their fate under Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian governance. She has criticized Russian textbooks for depicting Crimean Tatars as inferior and supporting in xenophobic stereotypes of Crimean Tatars from the Soviet era. As an active writer for

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she has written articles on ''krymr'' about the present situation in Crimea as well as the role of Crimean Tatars in the Red Army and the Crimean Tatar civil rights movement.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bekirova, Gulnara 1968 births Living people Crimean Tatar writers People from Melitopol