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Former Guantanamo Bay Detainee Resettled to Turkey
Posted on February 28, 2013 | No CommentsBy JONATHAN KAMINSKY Associated Press February 27, 2013 (AP) One of six Chinese nationals held by the U.S. at its Guantanamo Bay prison and released to Palau in 2009 has... -
A Short Uighur Story – Xatire خاتىرە – YouTube
Posted on January 13, 2013 | No CommentsXatire خاتىرە – YouTube. Share -
China holds exhibition to ease Turkish concerns over treatment of ethnic Uygurs
Posted on September 7, 2012 | No CommentsChinese Muslims, all 23 million of them, say it can be hard practicing their faith in China. Particularly for ethnic Uyguys, there is long-running discrimination that many Uygurs say endangers... -
Uyghur Folk Song: Qara Qara Qaghlar
Posted on March 11, 2012 | No CommentsUyghur folk song by Mihrigul Hesen. Share -
Uighur protests as China’s Xi Jinping visits Turkey
Posted on February 26, 2012 | No CommentsActivists from China’s Muslim Uighur minority burnt Chinese flags in Ankara on Tuesday where China’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping was holding talks with Turkish officials on regional issues. About 60 Turkic-speaking... -
UPDATE 3-Uighur protests as China’s Xi visits Turkey
Posted on February 22, 2012 | No Comments* Turkish PM called 2009 Chinese crackdown on riots “genocide” * Uighur protesters burn Chinese flag, Xi poster * China is Turkey’s 15th biggest export market * Erdogan says will... -
And Now, Anacostia: Food News: Kabobs for Anacostia?
Posted on June 30, 2011 | No CommentsFood News: Kabobs for Anacostia? This seems a bit random, but also goes to show that nowadays it isn’t only the “expected” organizations and businesses that are beginning to move... -
Looking for Plov in Istanbul
Posted on June 30, 2011 | No CommentsMihman: Plov and Happiness (Editor’s Note: Since it turns out that “DTVAE,” our favorite Uighur restaurant in town, is closed while the Ottoman-era building it is in is being restored,... -
Rebiya Kadeer
Posted on June 30, 2011 | 1 CommentRebiya Kadeer is a former businesswoman whose activistism on behalf for the rights of China’s Uighur ethnic group, to which she belongs, led to her jailing and exile. In 2005,... -
Turkey Seeks Closer Economic and Strategic Ties with China
Posted on October 16, 2010 | 1 CommentTurkey Seeks Closer Economic and Strategic Ties with China Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 7 Issue: 186 October 15, 2010 By: Saban Kardas Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabo’s official visit... -
What Cyprus tells us about Turkey
Posted on October 2, 2010 | No CommentsBy David Kenner Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias gave Foreign Policy an interview earlier this week, where he offered an eloquent explanation of the factors that have conspired to leave his country his... -
Blast Kills 7 In Area Of China Plagued By Ethnic Strife
Posted on August 19, 2010 | No Commentsby The Associated Press August 19, 2010 A bomb attack killed seven people and wounded 14 Thursday in China’s far west region of Xinjiang, an area beset by ethnic conflict... -
Uyghur Evictee Detained
Posted on August 12, 2010 | No Comments2010-08-10 Chinese authorities hold an elderly Uyghur farmer in Beijing. RFA Abdurehim Mollek says his land in Onsu county was sold to a resettled Han Chinese farmer by local officials.... -
China ‘arrests Xinjiang plotters’
Posted on June 25, 2010 | No CommentsEthnic Uighurs accuse Beijing of marginalising them in favour of Han Chinese migrants [File: AP] Chinese police have arrested more than 10 “hardcore terrorists” who allegedly planned to carry out attacks... -
Xinjiang – Where China’s Worry Intersects the World
Posted on March 19, 2010 | No CommentsThe recent killing of a Uighur terrorist in Afghanistan has brought new focus on the ethnic group in China’s western border region.of Xinjiang. The situation of the Uighurs – an... -
Exiled Activist Says Uyghur Issue Crucial For Central Asia
Posted on December 10, 2009 | No CommentsRebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress December 09, 2009 PRAGUE/VIENNA — World Uyghur Congress President Rebiya Kadeer has told RFE/RL she is urging European politicians to focus on... -
Uyghur Pressed to Spy
Posted on December 4, 2009 | No Comments2009-12-02 An exiled Uyghur returns home and finds himself in Chinese custody. Undated photo of Kamirdin Abdurahman. Photo: RFA HONG KONG—Authorities in China’s troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang detained... -
Obama’s Inner Kissinger
Posted on November 1, 2009 | No CommentsMickey Edwards The Iconoclast Mickey Edwards The Iconoclast For more than 200 years, America’s policy makers have wrestled with the complexities of dealing with the world. George Washington, for example,... -
China Secretly Seizing Uyghur Men, Rights Group Says
Posted on October 21, 2009 | No CommentsChinese troops deployed in Urumqi in September. October 21, 2009 BEIJING (Reuters) — Scores of Uyghur men have disappeared since deadly ethnic riots in far-west China in July, seized by... -
UIGHURS: A tale of two cities under siege
Posted on October 7, 2009 | No CommentsWatch Video http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8291904.stm Three months after the fierce outbreak of ethnic violence in the Western Chinese region of Xinjiang, when more than 200 ethnic Chinese and predominantly Muslim Uighurs were...
