ANKARA (Sputnik) — The minister also warned against forgetting about frozen conflicts, such as the ones in Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and especially in Ukraine.
"Ethnic and religious minorities have always been facing prejudice, but the situation has never been as worrying as now. This trend is especially evident in Western Europe… Tolerance and mutual understanding is what we should teach our youth," Cavusoglu said at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial Council in Hamburg, Gemany.
Cavusoglu called for a peaceful resolution of Ukrainian conflict, urging international community to ensure the rights of Crimean Tatar minority.
Crimea rejoined Russia in March 2014 after 96 percent of the peninsula's residents who voted in a referendum on the matter supported the move. The leaders of Mejlis, an organization representing the minority, Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov opposed the reunification and left the peninsula for Ukraine. They have contributed to the blockade of the peninsula imposed by Ukraine, as well as accusing Russia of violating the Crimean Tatars' rights, which has been refuted by Moscow.
