Timur Şahmurad oğlu Daĝcı (Crimean Tatar Cyrillic: Тимур Шахмурад огълу Дагъджы, Russian: Тимур Шахмурадович Дагджи, romanized as Timur Shakhmuradovich Dagdzhi; 19 May 1932 – 5 February 2022) was a Crimean Tatar journalist and newspaper editor.
Daĝcı was born to a Crimean Tatar family on 19 May 1932;[a] at the age of fifteen he began working as a car mechanic.
[6] After being released from prison he worked in journalism, and from 1982 to 1985 he was the head editor of the newspaper Lenin Bayrağı.
[9] Nevertheless, he was very critical of the Soviet state for denying the existence of Crimean Tatars as a distinct ethnic group, which he described as genocidal in his memoirs.
[10] Despite his support for the failed Mubarek project that encouraged Crimean Tatars to stay in Uzbekistan, he moved to his homeland Crimea in 1989.