- WELCOME TO THE HOME OF CRIMEAN TATARS KIRIM TATARLARNIN EVI This Web site is sponsored by SOTA, Haarlem, The Netherlands. Young Dancers at Gezlev (G ) The Crimean Tatars are Turkic people who inhabited the Crimean peninsula, now a part of Ukraine, for over seven centuries. They established their own Khanate in the 1440s and remained an important power in Eastern Europe until 1783, when Crimea ...www.euronet.nl/users/sota/krimtatar.html