Letter of Seventeen

This article is about the Crimean "Letter of Seventeen". For the Latvian letter with the same number of supporters, see Letter of 17 Latvian communists.

The Letter of Seventeen (Russian: «Письмо семнадцати») was an unpopular open letter to the exiled Crimean Tatar community in published in Lenin Bayrağı in March 1968 condemning the desire for right of return among other Crimean Tatars. It was dubbed "the letter of seventeen traitors".

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