Beginning in May 1943, Dagci's group began subordinating other partisan groups at the behest of the military command, which expressed its desire for Dagci to shift his goal towards convincing Crimean Tatar collaborators to join the partisans. As a result of Dagci's efforts, a member of , Baki Gaziyev, defected to the partisans. Gaziyev's defection enabled partisan forces to bring an end to the German blockade of the partisan-run airfield in the Qarabiy yayla mountain range. At its peak, Dagci's network included 35 or 78 people, and included several members of his family. According to , author of the Crimean Tatar Encyclopaedia, two thirds of Dagci's organisation were ethnic Crimean Tatars. Death and legacy It remains a source of dispute as to how Dagci's group was unravelled. According to The Long Way to the Truth, a memoir by partisan Galina Skripnichenko-Korovyakovskaya, the partisan group fell after one of its members was arrested by the Sicherheitsdienst and divulged information to German authorities. According to the Crimean Tatar rights organisation Milliy Fırqa, however, the organisation was destroyed from within by two pro-German infiltrators, Zoya Martynova and Tatyana Andreyeva. On 12 June 1943, Dagci and his family members were arrested by the Nazis. Dagci himself was executed on 26 June 1943, and five of his family members were executed by the Gestapo. Other members of his organisation were either tortured to death, executed by firing squad, or imprisoned at the . Following Dagci's death, the Crimean Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party petitioned to the State Defense Committee that he be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. However, the request went unanswered. In 1966, another attempt was made to nominate Dagci for the title by 24 Crimean Tatar intellectuals, this time alongside partisan scout Alime Abdenanova (who was later awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation in 2014). Once again, the nomination was unsuccessful, this time resulting in said intellectuals, many of whom were supporters of the Crimean Tatar civil rights movement, being noted by the Soviet government as political opponents. In 1998, repatriated Crimean Tatars living in the village named a street after Dagci. In 2017, the Council of Elders of the Crimean Tatars of Alushta sent a petition to Sergey Aksyonov, head of the Republic of Crimea, requesting that a memorial to Dagci and his family be installed in his native village of Izobilne. References