Ahtem Chiygoz | |
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| Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People | |
| Assumed office 2007 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| 9th convocation | |
| Assumed office August 29, 2019 | |
| Constituency | European Solidarity, No.8 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 December 1964 Bulungur, Uzbek SSR |
| Citizenship | Ukraine |
| Nationality | Crimean Tatar |
Ahtem Chiygoz (Crimean Tatar: Ahtem Zeytulla oğlu Çiygoz, Ukrainian: Ахтем Зейтуллайович Чийгоз, born 14 December 1964, Bulungur, Uzbek SSR) is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar politician. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People,[1] a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the current convocation,[2] Chairman of the Bakhchysaray regional Mejlis, and delegate to the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People.
He is a former political prisoner of the Kremlin; following Russia's attempted annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula[3] he was arrested on January 29, 2015, and charged with organization of a rally in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine that took place in Simferopol on February 26, 2014.[4] He was freed on October 25, 2017.[5]
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Chiygoz was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as a deputy for the party European Solidarity.[6]
