{"id":81989,"date":"2026-04-02T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=81989"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:36:36","slug":"haxhiu-marks-kosovos-1981-student-protests-as-a-key-political-turning-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/haxhiu-marks-kosovos-1981-student-protests-as-a-key-political-turning-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Haxhiu marks Kosovo\u2019s 1981 student protests as a key political turning point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The plenary session of the Kosovo Assembly began by commemorating the Spring 1981 protests. The Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo, Albulena Haxhiu, said that these protests marked a turning point for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWe remember the Spring 1981 protests, one of the clearest moments of political expression of Kosovo Albanians. They began with students as a response to a specific injustice, but very quickly turned into an open demand for equality, dignity, and political status under the slogan \u2018Kosovo Republic,\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Haxhiu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plenary session of the Kosovo Assembly began by commemorating the Spring 1981 protests. The Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo, Albulena Haxhiu, said that these protests marked a turning point for the country. \u201cWe remember the Spring 1981 protests, one of the clearest moments of political expression of Kosovo Albanians. They began with students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":81990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[7975,1118,343,7976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81991,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81989\/revisions\/81991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}