''Yani dyunya'' () is a Crimean Tatar-language weekly

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, published in

Simferopol Simferopol ( ), also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, but controlled by Russia. It is considered the cap ...

. Its history dates back to 1918, when it was established in

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. In 2015, the newspaper was merged with the magazine ''Yildiz''.

History

The newspaper was founded in

in 1918. Its first director was the Turkish Communist

Mustafa Suphi Mustafa Suphi or Mustafa Subhi (1883 – 28 January 1921) was a Turkish revolutionary and communist during the period of dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Early life Suphi was born in 1883 in Giresun Province, in the Ottoman Empire, now lo ...

. The newspaper was later moved to Simferopol, and in the late 1930s renamed to ''Kyzyl Kyrym'' () (''Red Crimea''). It was closed with the

deportation of the Crimean Tatars The deportation of the Crimean Tatars (, Cyrillic: Къырымтатар халкъынынъ сюргюнлиги) or the ('exile') was the ethnic cleansing and the cultural genocide of at least 191,044 Crimean Tatars that was carried out ...

in 1944, and refounded in 1957 in

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with the name ''Lenin bayragy'' () (''Lenin's Flag'') as an organ of the Central Committee of the Uzbek SSR Communist Party. In the 1970s, the newspaper was printed thrice a week with a circulation of 23,000. In June 1983, the government of the Uzbek SSR forbid the newspaper from using terms such as " Crimean ASSR", as well as Crimean Tatar names of towns such as "Aqmescit" for

, "Aqyar" for

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, and "Gezlev" for

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in articles mentioning the birthplaces of Crimean Tatars featured in the newspaper. In 1991, the newspaper returned to Simferopol and to its old name of ''Yani dyunya''. In 2015, Zera Bekirova, who had been the chief editor for six years, resigned, citing political pressure on the newspaper. Seyran Suleyman became the new chief editor.

Notable contributors

* Şamil Alâdin * Mustafa Selimov * Seitumer Emin * Abselâm Islâmov * Timur Daĝcı * Ablâziz Veliyev

References

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