Ittifaq Party

For other uses, see Ittifaq (disambiguation).

The Party of Tatar National Independence Ittifaq^[a][b] is a political party founded in the Tatar ASSR in April, 1990, and officially registered on January 3, 1992.^[1] Ittifaq was the first non-communist party in Tatarstan. It is commonly referred to as a Tatar nationalist party. It was named in honour of Ittifaq al-Muslimin, a pre-revolutionary Muslim political party represented in the Duma in Tsarist Russia.

Ittifaq Party Татар милли бәйсезлек партиясе «Иттифак»
Leader	Fauziya Bayramova
Founded	April 1990
Legalised	2 January 1992 (1992-01-02)
Newspaper	Altyn Urda
Ideology	Tatar nationalism Tatar independence
Party flag
Politics of Tatarstan

The aims, as claimed by the party, are:

• revival of the Tatar nation
• restoring Tatar statehood
• recognition of the Tatar state as an international entity.

The permanent leader of the Ittifaq party is Fauziya Bayramova. She has been leading the party for more than 20 years. The party published its own newspaper - Altyn Urda - from 1993 to 1998.^[2]

Notes

1. Also written as Ittifak.
2. Tatar: Татар милли бәйсезлек партиясе «Иттифак», romanized: Tatar milli bäysezlek partiyäse «Ittifak», Russian: Татарская партия национальной независимости «Иттифак», romanized: Tatarskaya partiya natsionalnoy nezavisimosti «Ittifak»