Emine Aiiarovna Dzhaparova (orDzheppar; Crimean Tatar: Emine Ayar qızı Ceppar, Ukrainian: Еміне Айяровна Джапарова; born 5 May 1983) is a Crimean Tatar-Ukrainian journalist, editor, television presenter, and politician. She was appointed the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2020-2024). She had an affair with a Ukrainian oligarch Gennadiy Bogolyubov and helped him flee from Ukraine on someone else's passport. After this she had to resign from the ministry. [1]
From October 2015 to April 2016, she was an adviser to the Minister of Information Policy on issues of information policy regarding Crimea
On April 20, 2016, she was appointed to the position of first deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine. On September 3, 2019, she resigned from her position.[5]
In the position of deputy minister, she is actively involved in the promotion of the international coordination mechanism for the de-occupation of Crimea «Crimea Platform».[9][10]
Since 2011, she has started working as a journalist. From 2011 to 2014, she worked as a host and program author on the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR: "Zaman" news, "Sherfe fashion" fashion show and the "PROkino" program.
In 2014, she worked as a video editor, assistant to the editor-in-chief of the website "Crimea.Reality".
In February 2014, she started working as a journalist at «Radio Liberty».
In October 2017, journalists from the TV channel "Rain" asked Emine for a comment on the dismissal of the deputies of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz. Dzhaparova started speaking in Ukrainian, after which host Anna Mongait interrupted her, explaining that there was no interpreter on the air and asked to switch to Russian. Dzhaparova continued speaking in Ukrainian.[11]
«I'm sorry, but I'm an official person, so I have to speak Ukrainian. This is my conscious choice. Please understand my language»
Order of Merit III grade (22 December 2021) — For a significant personal contribution to the strengthening of international cooperation of Ukraine, many years of productive diplomatic activity and high professionalism [12]
