"Ukrainian democracy speaks Turkish in the Crimea
The Ukrainian Tatars, a minority deported by Stalin all those years ago, still suffer from discrimination. Their support for Yushchenko, leader of the �Orange Revolution�, has now turned to fear
Following the presidential elections on December 26th, in Kiev the revellers are still partying after the victory of Yushchenko and the departure of the first international election observers. Elsewhere in Ukraine the situation has been, and still is, far more tense. In Simferopol, the capital of the autonomous republic of Crimea, Yushchenko�s supporters speak not Ukraninan but Turkish and do not even amount to 20% of the local population. "
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