Gulchehra Hoja knows exactly what’s going on in East Turkestan. She has interviewed many escapees, prison guards, and others. She is a Uyghur-American journalist, working for Radio Free Asia.

Xinjiang’s strategic role in the Belt and Road Initiative has also led to demographic engineering, as Beijing resettles Han ...

Istanbul [Turkey], February 6 (ANI): The International Union of Turkestan Organizations ... of the ongoing oppression faced ...

The United States has announced new visa restrictions targeting foreign officials involved in the forced return of Uyghurs and other vulnerable ethnic or religious groups to China. New US Measures ...

She taught me our true history. Adel Abdulghufor is a Uyghur Muslim from Kashgar, in what he calls the country of East Turkestan. Officially, the region is called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ...

Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist views that are a threat to security. They point to attacks in 2013 and ...

Uyghur separatist groups have consistently ... risk for Beijing The Taliban have long provided members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), also known as the Turkistan Islamic Party ...

"but many Uyghur and East Turkestan groups and individuals operate within Turkish law, making it impossible for the government to completely comply with Chinese demands." During the trip ...

Malaysian NGOs ABIM and MAPIM warn this deportation could embolden further aggressive policies against Uyghur refugees, while ...

The U.S. and China should be working together to root out militant groups, particularly in Pakistan. So why aren't they? The Urumqi attack hints that the nature of separatism and terrorism in ...

Memetali was speaking to MEE in an Istanbul suburb in a building that houses a Uyghur organisation called the Association of East Turkestan Scholars (East Turkestan is the name the Muslim ...

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