22-11-2011

Two very important people died this week, important for their community and people everywhere.
No they where not International recognised, they where not on the front pages of the news papers, they most of the time where not even in the Local newspapers. But both where at the foreground of the peoples thinking in their communities and far beyond. Both were born thousand of miles away.
Both started out in religions they would not keep.



They where not knocking at the newspapers doors for recognition, they where not sucking up to the people, “who know", no they were simple the centre of the thinking of the many people they did help and who where always assured that if a problem would arise, they where the ones they could turning to. Both had a live so very similar that we are both remembering on one page.



The first one was born in Dublin Ireland in 1941, under the name Angela Mary Murtagh, where is not known nor was it known who was the father and the mother was only found by finding a birth certificate accidental after she was found playing at the street. By absence of the father had the result that they where taken into orphanage and held there under very primitive circumstances under control of nuns of the Irish Roman Catholic Church, where beatings and neglect were order of the day. When she escaped the tyranny of the nuns in Dublin Ireland she went hidden on a cattle boat to England and ended up in Liverpool England. However even there she was not save as the reprensentive of the Irish clan of the family did not want to come out that they were neglected when just born. She was threatened with the Police from Ireland and told that she could be arrested and brought back any times. Again the many beatings where the cruel tools they worked with.



Again she managed to escape to the only place she thought to be safe an aunt near London in England. This was also a mistake, although it was never clear what did exactly happen there, it was clear that she was kept prisoner until such time that it turned out that she was pregnant. As she was kept under lock and key by her aunt and her husband if will be obvious that an explanation was needed to explain this, this was never done. The turn came when something near the birth of the baby something went wrong. It brought her into a Hospital. There discovered the streams on her body which were explained by the aunt as done by the child itself a fact that was not accepted in the hospital but no further action was taken. Then an Irish nurse told her that she had not done anything wrong, and that her aunt had no right. She was free.



The baby she did never see as it was taken away to be adopted, and after recovery she went to London standing on her own two feet. She found work; she found a home and things for that time in England actual looked up. After relationships that brought her two children she settled down in the West of London and never would leave it. But it was here in the west of London that her live changed. She learned from her own experience how to help others and when that word went around questions for help where never far off.



She med the man of what she called her dreams, and from there her helping was an accepted fact. She organised market traders of the Famous Portobello Antique Market, organised the residents of the Estate where she was living, opened a shop, and then another the more antique units while doing other jobs at the same time. But always she was the centre when someone needed help. The local authority was not so grateful of her help to the traders and resident and left, no stone unturned to obstruct her. However her view of live was as such that she always came out on top, even the court cases turned out in her favour.



When the time of retirement came plans where made to move to the seaside to retire with just a little shop together with her husband. It did not happen, severe illness struck her and would kept her struck down for 15 years until last week when she died on Friday 14-11-2011 2217 hours wit a smile on her face. Live had never got her down and by the smile neither did the death.
However the responses to her death that went like a wild fire through the community, where even all the political parties send there condolences, expert the conservatives and the response was enormous.
On the day of her funeral people from all over the world will be attending to pay their respect to a woman who never gave up, never was down and managed to turn a tear into a smile time after time.
She will never be forgotten, just as she never forgot that she was an Irish woman and proud at that fact, even if she did never returned a wish that she always had.


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As a native of the beautiful villages of the Crimea Ayserez, Burhan was born and for the time of nine years he livid there till his mother and four brothers and sisters where to be expelled from their native ground and the people they had known. In the spring of 1945, his mother died and the children put children in the orphanage, the Shahrisabz (Uzbekistan).



At the end of World War II, Ablyaziz aga did manage to find Emadina son and Burhanand the daughter but the, the daughter of Esmu, but the fourth child, also a son, was not longer there in the orphanage, his whereabouts where unknown as it is tat present no one could tell where he was or even of he was alive, lost it or adopted it? Till this day Ablyazov could not find him. As a father of three children he was forced to live in one of the villages of Kara-Darya district of Samarkand region of Uzbekistan.



Burhan now grown up soon creates a family with his girlfriend Zeynep. Working, trying to provide for his family, and the younger children. But in all this Burhan never left the idea of returning to their homeland. Although he was among the countrymen - of the initiative group of Samarkand, which was headed by Yaya Kasimov, Ilyas Mustafayev, Assan Izmailov and other Crimean Tatars he wanted to return. He went to the many meetings and, gatherings, participate in the preparation of letters, appeals and applications for, and the requirement to restore the lost Crimean Tatar people.



In 1966 Burhan goes with a delegation from the people goes to Moscow, where is working for a month with his compatriots. In all the towns and villages, where they were sent, they where seeking admission authorities, and hoped for decisions. A hard and slow progress although it was supported by the people.



In 1976 Burhan Efendi and Zeynep Khanum with her now four children moved into the Crimea. But they were not in their native Aysereze or elsewhere, where they wanted to live. They even where not allowed to buy a home there. At the end they did buy a home buy a house in the village of Eli melon. However, they still had the local authority against them. They the house lights turned off and smashed the car, and slowly took apart everything piece by piece. Every now and then came vigilantes, police, uchinyali questioning: Who are you? Where do you come from? What are you doing here, get back where came from.



After a whole month of bullying Burhan Efendi had a hart attack. Being treated in the hospital the doctor told him, "If you want to live, then think about children, your family, you have to leave. The second such strike on your heart you can not survive. And since you are so young and only 44 years of age. It still would with great difficulty, a little do to improve their health, Ablyazov move to Taman. Here, not far from his native land, had lived for 16 years.



Burhan Efendi was a fully committed to Islam. He was trained by a teacher before the war.
In more than 10 years with a local mullah, mullah Ablyazov to conduct prayers and various religious rituals. Finally, in 1991, Ablyazov once again returned to his homeland. After touring many parts of the Crimea, he makes plans for the house and start building in the village Voykova (Hydyrlez) Leninsky district.



In 1996, the Muslim community Kerch unanimously elected him as the Imam Juma Jami Mosque city. A huge part he had in the construction of a mosque in the village of Medina, Jami Voykova (Hydyrlez). Turkish Muslims were asked to lead the construction of Burhan aga. With his leadership, Jami Mosque Medina had already co-religionists in 2001. The event took place with the participation of Turkish-minded friends, the Mufti of Crimea Adji Emirali Ablaeva and many compatriots and the Kerch and the Crimea peninsula. The activities of the Imam Burhan Ablyazov are praised to a high level. He brought openness and help and Burhan aga Ablyazov gained authority, love and gratitude among his countrymen.



The Kerch region and the Crimea will not forget him. His teachings about education, knowledge, culture, the continuation of the traditions of the people laid down by the great thinkers, scientists, educators, Enlightenment of the Crimean Tatar people.


On the day of the funeral of Imam Burhan aga Ablyazov countrymen gathered from all over the Crimea, children, grandchildren, relatives, friends, members of the Milli Mejlis Crimean Muftiate last farewell to a wonderful man. Farewell prayer were said Mufti of Crimea Adji Emirali Ablaev. He praised the work of the Imam of the Kerch region, said that such people are an example for future generations.