Sîdîyîk Ibrahim H. Mîrzî (known in

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as Sadîc Ibraim) (1909–1959) was a Crimean Tatar spiritual leader,

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of the Muslim community of

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, and activist for ethnic Tatar causes.

Biography

Sîdîyîk was born in 1909 to Ibrahim Hağî Mîrzî (1881-1960) and Zebide (1888-1968) in Kíşke Tatlîğak, known today as

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, a village situated in the

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

countryside west of

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. He served as

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between 1943 and 1945. He was preceded by Kurt-Amet Mustafa and succeeded by Reşit Seit-Veli. In 1945 he was arrested and investigated facing charges of traveling to

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sent by the

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to foster the separation of Crimea from the

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, creating in Romania nests of Crimean Tatars aimed at defaming in the highest degree the Soviet state and its army, helping the Germans to recruit Crimean Tatars charged of being Soviet patriots who were taken to Germany and whose existence is unknown. Sîdîyîk died in 1959 in

Pitești Prison Pitești Prison ( ro, Închisoarea Pitești) was a penal facility in Pitești, Romania, best remembered for the reeducation experiment (also known as ''Experimentul Pitești'' – the "Pitești Experiment" or ''Fenomenul Pitești'' – the "Pit ...

. He was buried at Muslim Central Cemetery in Constanța, at: 44.173435, 28.621952.

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