{"id":19076,"date":"2010-05-19T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=19076"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:44:38","slug":"crimean-tatars-mark-deportation-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/05\/19\/crimean-tatars-mark-deportation-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimean Tatars Mark Deportation Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Crimea’s Tatars mark Deportation Day in Simferapol.
\nMay 18, 2010
\nSIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar minority has marked the 66th anniversary of their deportation, RFE\/RL’s Ukrainian and Tatar-Bashkir services report.<\/p>\n

On May 18, 1944, Soviet Army and Interior Ministry troops deported the entire Tatar population of Crimea — some 180,000 people — to Siberia and Central Asia on the orders of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people died along the journey.<\/p>\n

In 1991, the Crimean Tatars received official permission to return to Crimea. They currently make up more than 12 percent of the Crimean Peninsula’s population of some 2.1 million.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych issued a decree last week calling on the authorities “to provide all necessary conditions for marking the 66th anniversary of the deportation at the appropriate level.”<\/p>\n

Crimean Tatar leaders and activists have been holding commemorative gatherings and mourning ceremonies in Crimea since May 16.<\/p>\n

Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar parliament, or Mejlis, said on May 17 that the gatherings are not protest actions but acts of mourning.<\/p>\n

The Day to Commemorate the Victims of the Deportation has been marked every year in Crimea since 1993.<\/p>\n

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Crimea’s Tatars mark Deportation Day in Simferapol. May 18, 2010 SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Crimean Tatar minority has marked the 66th anniversary of their deportation, RFE\/RL’s Ukrainian and Tatar-Bashkir services report. On May 18, 1944, Soviet Army and Interior Ministry troops deported the entire Tatar population of Crimea — some 180,000 people — to Siberia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":783565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,783],"tags":[444],"class_list":["post-19076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine-eastern-europe-english","tag-crimean-tatars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19076","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=19076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}