Seitablayev was born in 1972 in Yangiyo ‘ l , then part of the Uzbek SSR . His parents were deported to Uzbekistan in the Sürgün since Crimean Tatars were one numerous ethnic groups to experience collective punishment of exile in the Stalin era . He attended school in Uzbekistan and remained in exile with his family until they moved back to Crimea during the Perestroika era in 1989 , where he began his film career in 1992 after graduating from the Crimean Cultural Enlightenment School
Sürgün
Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Akhtem Seitablayev