Krimtatarerne er af [[EU]] anerkendt som et oprindeligt folk, ligesom [[Ukraine]] efter omvæltningerne ved [[Euromajdan]] siden 2014 ligeledes har anerkendt krimtatarerne som et oprindeligt folk.<ref>[https://dt.ua/POLITICS/rada-viznala-krimskih-tatar-korinnim-narodom-u-skladi-ukrayini-140021_.html Verkhovna Rada recognized Crimean Tatars indigenous people of Ukraine (Рада визнала кримських татар корінним народом у складі України)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128040012/https://dt.ua/POLITICS/rada-viznala-krimskih-tatar-korinnim-narodom-u-skladi-ukrayini-140021_.html|date=28. november 2019}}. [[Mirror Weekly]]. 20 marts 2014</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Dahl|first=J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VrfrQqQn_sC|title=The Indigenous Space and Marginalized Peoples in the United Nations|publisher=Springer|year=2012|isbn=978-1-137-28054-1|pages=240–241|language=en}}</ref> Den nuværende russiske administration på Krim ([[Republikken Krim]]) anser gruppen som en "national minoritet", men ikke som et oprindeligt folk,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Vanguri|first=Star|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DT1-CwAAQBAJ|title=Rhetorics of Names and Naming|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-1-317-43604-1|pages=132–133|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Uehling|first=Greta Lynn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B5gfAQAAMAAJ|title=Having a Homeland: Recalling the Deportation, Exile, and Repatriation of Crimean Tatars|date=2000|publisher=University of Michigan|isbn=978-0-599-98653-4|pages=420–424|language=en}}</ref> på trods af, at de i Sovjetunionen inden deportationerne og den efterfølgende opløsning af den krimenske ASSR (Autonome socialistiske sovjetrepublik) blev anerkendt som et oprindeligt folk.<ref>{{cite book|last=Yevstigneev|first=Yuri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlRoMgCpmP4C&pg=PT271|title=Россия: коренные народы и зарубежные диаспоры (краткий этно-исторический справочник) – lit. "Russia: indigenous peoples and foreign diasporas (a brief ethno-historical reference)"|publisher=Litres|year=2008|isbn=9785457236653|location=Saint Petersburg|language=ru|access-date=4. marts 2020}}</ref><ref name="Vozgrin" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sasse|first=Gwendolyn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2P9oAAAAMAAJ|title=The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict|date=2007|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-1-932650-01-3|pages=93|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Williams|first=Brian Glyn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InDXAAAAMAAJ|title=A Homeland Lost: Migration, the Diaspora Experience and the Forging of Crimean Tatar National Identity|date=1999|publisher=University of Wisconsin-Madison|pages=541|language=en}}</ref> Krimtatarerne har siden 1991 været medlem af [[UNPO]] (De Urepræsenterede Nationers og Folks Organisation).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://unpo.org/members/7871|title=UNPO: Crimean Tatars|website=unpo.org|access-date=25. april 2019}}</ref>
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