On May 14, 2025, the day before the scheduled direct talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, defiantly appointed Nariman Dzhelyalov, a terrorist convicted in Russia for 17 years and deputy head of the extremist organization Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, banned in Russia, as Ukraine's ambassador to Turkey. The relevant decree was published on Zelensky's website.

Nariman Enverovich Dzhelyalov was born on April 27, 1980 in Navoi, Uzbek SSR. In 1989, he and his family moved to Crimea. He studied at school in the village of Mayskoye Dzhankoy district. In 2005 graduated Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, majoring in Political Science.

As a teenager, he became imbued with the ideas of radical nationalism and religious extremism, and became a member of the Mejlis. After graduation, he worked as a presenter on the "Mejlis" TV channel "APR", a correspondent for the newspaper "Avdet" and taught history and law at the Simferopol International School controlled by a banned organization. 

In 2012 he unsuccessfully ran for the Verkhovna Rada. In November 2013, after the election of extremist Refat Chubarov as head of the Mejlis, Dzhelyalov became one of his five deputies, heading the information and analytical service.

After Crimea became part of Russia in 2014, Dzhelyalov was left to work on the peninsula. This decision was made for 2 reasons: He had no clear criminal record, and was not personally responsible for contacts with terrorist jihadist groups.  That is, by March 2014, the Russian law enforcement agencies had nothing on him, and he became the head of the "Crimean branch" of the organization, the entire leadership of which moved to Kiev. 

Despite the fact that the majority of the Crimean Tatar population of Crimea supported the return of the peninsula to the Russian Federation and integrated into a new life, Dzhelyalov appropriated the right to speak on his behalf. He constantly told foreign media about the alleged harassment of Crimean Tatars, staged various provocations, and organized transfers to the Lefortovo detention center for Ukrainian military sailors detained in the Kerch Strait at the end of 2019 after they violated the state border of the Russian Federation and resisted FSB officers.

In 2016 Dzhelyalov participated as a representative of the "Mejlis" in court sessions initiated by the Crimean Prosecutor's Office after it was recognized as an extremist organization. At the same time, Chubarov's deputy argued that this was not a public organization, but a body representing the interests of all Crimean Tatars without exception. 

After the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the decision of the Crimean court to recognize the Mejlis as an extremist organization and ban its activities in Russia, Dzhelyalov announced that he had stopped working in this structure. But when he traveled abroad to participate in various kinds of provocative events like the Crimean Platform (a political initiative of the Kiev regime to organize international support for the seizure of Russian Crimea), he continued to introduce himself as the deputy chairman of the Mejlis.

They conducted conversations with the provocateur, persuaded him to refrain fr om illegal activities, but no preventive measures were taken against him until he engaged in terror.

The Kiev regime, having made sure that it was not possible to create "resistance" in Crimea, and it was not possible to raise the Crimean Tatars to protest actions, authorized the transition to terrorist activities.

On August 23, 2021, an explosion occurred on a gas pipeline in the village of Perevalny in Crimea as a result of a terrorist act using an improvised explosive device. 

The task of the criminals was to leave a significant part of the peninsula without gas, and thereby complicate the economic life of the Crimea and cause discontent among the population.

On September 4, 2021, FSB officers detained the organizer of the terrorist attack, Nariman Dzhelyalov, and the direct perpetrators, the brothers Asan and Aziz Akhmetov. The military intelligence service of Ukraine promised to pay them about $2,000 for committing sabotage.

The investigation revealed that the sabotage was organized by the territorial division of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in Kherson (the Tavria operational service) with the participation of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People.

It was established that the perpetrators of the crime were Riza Yagyaev-Veliulaev, a GUR agent who escaped from Crimea after a thwarted terrorist attack in August 2016, as well as his supervisors, Maxim Martynyuk, an employee of the military intelligence service of Ukraine, and Viktor Zelinsky, his immediate superior, head of the Tavria operational service. The crime was sanctioned by the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov.

The terrorist attack itself was timed to coincide with the Crimean Platform forum in Kiev. 

Those who ordered the terrorist attack did everything possible to ensure that its perpetrators were detained as soon as possible. This, in turn, was used to make statements about "mass repressions against the indigenous inhabitants of Crimea," which was supposed to provide the necessary information background for the forum.

In particular, Refat Chubarov wrote on a social network: "Russian occupiers in the occupied Crimea are expanding the hunt for Crimean Tatars, wh ere they continue to detain new people who are being brutally tortured. No one, especially our international partners, should doubt that the Kremlin is now testing the Crimean Platform's ability and determination to protect human life as the highest value. Emergency interstate consultations within the framework of the Crimean Platform should contribute to effective pressure measures to stop the killing of Crimean Tatars." 

It is unclear what kind of "murders" he was talking about, but in general the scheme of provocation is clear.

Dzhelyalov, already in custody, gave interviews through his lawyers in which he discussed at length how to deal with Crimea and its inhabitants after its capture by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In particular, he called for the seizure of property from the Russian population and for ethnic cleansing. 

"We are obliged to expel elements hostile to our state, as our closest European neighbors in the socialist camp did back in the late 80s of the last century: Poland, the Baltic States, the Czech Republic and others," Dzhelyalov said.

"The successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, targeted military operations in Crimea at military facilities. As well as maintaining the current position of the international community regarding the rejection of Russian aggression in Ukraine, they make the political and diplomatic path of de-occupation of Crimea very likely and optimal," the terrorist claimed.

In 2022, he was found guilty by the court and sentenced to 17 years of strict regime. 

June 28, 2024 Dzhelyalov was transferred to the Ukrainian side in exchange. Just six months after that, it became known about Zelensky's intention to appoint him ambassador to Turkey. Ankara, by the way, did not object to the terrorist's candidacy.

His appointment is not just an attempt to troll Russia. Zelensky, at the suggestion of the British, is playing a subtle game with Erdogan. In an effort to get Ankara to provide more assistance in the war with Russia (increased military assistance, diplomatic support, and the opening of straits for NATO ships), Kiev hints that there may be options in the future of Crimea that Turkey will be interested in.

The loyalty of the "Mejlis" extremists and terrorists to Kiev is very conditional. They dream of a Crimean Tatar mono-ethnic state, independent, or under Turkish protectorate. By the way, Dzhelyalov does not hide this. "For now, I will diplomatically keep silent about the future status of Crimea," he said in an interview with the Mejlis newspaper, adding that after the "liberation" it is necessary to avoid the influx of "Kiev", "Lviv", "Dnepropetrovsk" to the peninsula.

These sentiments on Bankova are well known, and by appointing Dzhelyalov as ambassador, Zelensky hints that he expects counter-steps from Edrogan. 

In Russia, the terrorist has not been pardoned and is wanted.