{"id":12519,"date":"2009-05-20T21:19:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T19:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T06:56:26","slug":"crimean-tatars-continue-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/05\/20\/crimean-tatars-continue-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimean Tatars Continue Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"zoomMe\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"zoomMe\">KYIV &#8212; A group of Crimean Tatars is continuing a protest action in front of the government building in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, RFE\/RL&#8217;s Ukrainian Service reports.<\/p>\n<p>Some 120 Crimean Tatar activists have been staging the protest since mid-April, demanding land for Tatar repatriates in Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the action &#8212; Nariman Potelov, Dilyaver Reshitov, Rinat Shaymardanov, and Reshat Seydaliev &#8212; told RFE\/RL that seven of the protesters are on hunger strike. They say one of the hunger strikers is close to death.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters&#8217; major demand is for the government to ease the process for Tatar repatriates to acquire land for ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Defense Ministry, Agriculture Ministry, and Academy of Agriculture control the land on the peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The indigenous people of Crimea &#8212; Crimean Tatars &#8212; were deported to Central Asia by the Soviets in 1944. They started returning to their historic homeland after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, they have been demanding their ancestral land from local authorities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"zoomMe\">https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/Crimean_Tatars_Continue_Protest_Demand_Land\/1735610.html<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV &#8212; A group of Crimean Tatars is continuing a protest action in front of the government building in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, RFE\/RL&#8217;s Ukrainian Service reports. Some 120 Crimean Tatar activists have been staging the protest since mid-April, demanding land for Tatar repatriates in Crimea. Leaders of the action &#8212; Nariman Potelov, Dilyaver Reshitov, [&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-12519","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\/12519","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=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/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=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}