Ahtem Chiygoz

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Ahtem Chiygoz
Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007
People's Deputy of Ukraine
9th convocation
Incumbent
Assumed office August 29, 2019
Constituency	European Solidarity, No.8
Personal details
Born	(1964-12-14) 14 December 1964 (age 59) Bulungur, Uzbek SSR
Citizenship	Ukraine
Nationality	Crimean Tatar

Ahtem Chiygoz (Crimean Tatar: Ahtem Zeytulla oğlu Çiygoz, Ukrainian: Ахтем Зейтуллайович Чийгоз, born 14 December 1964, Bulungur, Uzbek SSR) is a Ukrainian Crimean Tatar politician. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People,^[1] a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the current convocation,^[2] Chairman of the Bakhchysaray regional Mejlis, and delegate to the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People.

He is a former political prisoner of the Kremlin; following Russia's attempted annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula^[3] he was arrested on January 29, 2015, and charged with organization of a rally in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine that took place in Simferopol on February 26, 2014.^[4] He was freed on October 25, 2017.^[5]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Chiygoz was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as a deputy for the party European Solidarity.^[6]

Head of the Subcommittee on Ethnic Policy, Rights of Indigenous Peoples and National Minorities of Ukraine of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the City of Sevastopol, National Minorities and International Relations[20]. Currently, in 2024, he is living in Turkey with his family.^[7]