Ittifaq Party

The Party of Tatar National Independence Ittifaq[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] is a political party founded in the Tatar ASSR in April, 1990, and officially registered on January 3, 1992.[1] Ittifaq was the first non-communist party in Tatarstan. It is commonly referred to as a Tatar nationalist party. It was named in honour of Ittifaq al-Muslimin, a pre-revolutionary Muslim political party represented in the Duma in Tsarist Russia.

Ittifaq Party
Татар милли бәйсезлек партиясе «Иттифак»
LeaderFauziya Bayramova
FoundedApril 1990
Legalised2 January 1992 (1992-01-02)
NewspaperAltyn Urda
Ideology
Party flag

The aims, as claimed by the party, are:

  • revival of the Tatar nation
  • restoring Tatar statehood
  • recognition of the Tatar state as an international entity.

The permanent leader of the Ittifaq party is Fauziya Bayramova. She has been leading the party for more than 20 years. The party published its own newspaper - Altyn Urda - from 1993 to 1998.[2]

Notes

  1. Also written as Ittifak.
  2. Tatar: Татар милли бәйсезлек партиясе «Иттифак», romanized: Tatar milli bäysezlek partiäse «Ittifak», Russian: Тататрская партия национальой независимости «Иттифак», romanized: Tatarskaya partiya natsionaloy nezalisimosti «Ittifak»

References

  1. (in Russian) Archived 2016-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Татар милли бәйсезлек партиясе "Иттифак"". Tatar Encyclopaedia (in Tatar). Kazan: The Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia. 2002.

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