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A world congress of Crimean Tatars has called for "all necessary measures" to be taken to return Crimea to Ukraine following Russia's takeover and annexation of the peninsula last year.

Participants in the second annual World Congress of Crimean Tatars said in a final declaration of its two-day gathering in Ankara on Aug. 2 the annexation must be "immediately ended" and that a new Ukrainian Constitution should grant autonomy to Crimean Tatars.

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