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Turul Statue Controversy Resolved — Taking the Wind Out of the Opposition’s Sails

Newly elected Budapest District XII Mayor Gergely Kovács has vowed to remove the local Turul monument, which is dedicated to the fallen soldiers of World War II, due to its connection to fascism. However, Minister of Construction and Transportation János…
The turul monument in Budapest's 12th district

Progressive Statue Removal Trend Comes to Hungary: The Case of the Turul Monument in Budapest’s 12th District

Gergely Kovács, the newly elected Budapest 12th district mayor of the Two-Tailed Dog Party, has vowed to remove the statue of the mythical turul bird located in the vicinity of the mayor’s office. He cited the monument’s connection to Nazism…
A golden plaque depicting a Turkic warrior from the Gokturk period (6th or 7th century)

The Hungarians and the Turkic Peoples: Relatives, Enemies, or Friends?

The Hungarian and Turkic people (or rather, peoples) are connected in many cultural and even genetic ways. The Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus called the Hungarian conquerors ‘Turks’, and the sons of the House of Árpád (Turul gens in medieval…
The Chase of the Wondrous Stag, a mural by Sándor Nagy (1909) on the façade of the Veszprém Petőfi theatre.

Hungarian Pre-Christian Myths: The Tree of Life, the Wondrous Stag and the Turul

The Wondrous Stag that, according to the legend, led Hungarians to the Carpathian Basin is one of the most significant animals in the before-Christ Hungarian worldview. As in many other ancient myths of origin, the Magyars believed their ancestors had…

Teacher Describes Situation in Hungarian School in Munkács as ‘Nightmare’

‘The clashes are ongoing, there is no harmony, they were sent here to carry out the school’s death sentence’, Pál Popovics, an informatics teacher at the school said….

Ukrainian Authorities Ban Hungarian Flag and Anthem at School Year Opening in Transcarpathian Munkács

The Hungarian community in Mukachevo has been harassed in a number of ways by the Ukrainian local authorities over the past year. Beside the attacks on the Hungarian secondary school, the municipality has been waging a war on all Hungarian…

War of Symbols in Transcarpathia

The size of the Ukrainian trident compares to the magnitude of the massive Mukachevo castle the same way decades of Ukrainian rule compare to the one-thousand-year-old Hungarian history in Transcarpathia….

Our Neighbour Is Hard to Like

The past will not be annulled by short-sighted and counterproductive acts like the removal of the turul statue. What those acts do, however, is demonstrate to Hungarians that despite all the good will, aid, and political support bestowed on their…

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