Noman Çelebicihan

نعمان چلبى جهان

1885 CE · 1302 AH† – 23 February 1918 CE · 12 Jumada I 1336 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Crimean Tatar politician, writer and poet, the first chairman of the Directory (national government) of the Crimean People's Republic and its head of justice. Elected in March 1917 chairman of the Provisional Crimean Muslim Executive Committee and temporary mufti of the Muslims of Crimea, Lithuania, Poland and Belarus, he organised the first Qurultay and authored 'Ant etkenmen', the Crimean Tatar national anthem; arrested in January 1918, he was shot by Bolshevik sailors at Sevastopol on 23 February 1918.