Sesnur Suliman and Ablez Aidîn, national vice president and vice president of the Constanța branch of the Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tatars in Romania, laid a wreath at the Heroes’ Cemetery in December 1989 on Wednesday, December 22, honoring those who died in 32 years ago.
UDTTMR thus responded to the invitation of the Institution of the Prefect of Constanța County to mark, within a religious and military ceremony, the Day of the Victory of the Revolution and Freedom, a holiday officially established by Law no. 273/2011.
December 22, 1989 is the day that changed Romania, but it is also the day that would fundamentally change the status of national minorities in Romania. Just a few days after this date, the ethnic communities in Romania laid the foundations of the first official organizations, established under the laws of the time, organizations that were created in order to rebuild identities and to represent ethnic groups at the institutional level. Many of the 19 organizations that currently represent the 20 officially recognized ethnic groups in Romania were founded in the days following December 22nd.
The Democratic Union of Turkish-Muslim Tatars in Romania was established in January 1990, and since then it is the only organization that officially represents the ethnic Tatars in Romania.
