{"id":11770,"date":"2009-04-28T21:50:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T18:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2023-04-30T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T09:49:56","slug":"trouble-brewing-in-crimea-over-traffic-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/04\/28\/trouble-brewing-in-crimea-over-traffic-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble Brewing In Crimea \u2026 Over Traffic Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"date date_article_gap\">April 28, 2009<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"zoomMe\">Crimean Tatars&#8217; organizations in Ukraine\u2019s Crimea are protesting a decision to introduce bilingual traffic signs on the peninsula\u2019s roads, according to RFE\/RL&#8217;s Ukrainian Service.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Council of Crimea adopted a law on April 22, according to which, by June 1 all traffic signs should be in two languages: Ukrainian and Russian. (At the moment, the signs are usually only in Ukrainian.)<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chairman of the Crimean Tatars&#8217; Assembly (Medjlis) Refat Chubarov told RFE\/RL that Crimean Tatar organizations and ordinary Crimean Tatars consider the new law&#8217;s adoption to be \u201cdiscrimination and ignoring the rights and interests of Crimean Tatars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea to Central Asia by Josef Stalin in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>After the collapse of the Soviet Union they started returning to Crimea. Now there are over 250,000 of them living in Crimea, around 18 percent of the peninsula&#8217;s general population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ukrainian Service <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\">http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/Trouble_Brewing_In_Crimea__Over_Traffic_Signs_\/1617723.html\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 28, 2009 Crimean Tatars&#8217; organizations in Ukraine\u2019s Crimea are protesting a decision to introduce bilingual traffic signs on the peninsula\u2019s roads, according to RFE\/RL&#8217;s Ukrainian Service. The Supreme Council of Crimea adopted a law on April 22, according to which, by June 1 all traffic signs should be in two languages: Ukrainian and Russian. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[783],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-11770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine-eastern-europe-english","tag-crimean-tatars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}