One spelling for one people! How about “Xinjiang Province” versus “East Turkestan”? “We all hate that ‘Xinjiang,’” says Gul, with a bite and a laugh. The name “Xinjiang” means ...

Xinjiang has been under control of China since it was annexed in 1949. Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist ...

In 1944, the Uighurs declared Xinjiang’s independence, renaming it East Turkestan—a name that Uighurs still use. But when Mao Tse-tung’s Communists took power in 1949, they regained control ...

This group, known as the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), has called for violent actions in Xinjiang, a region in ... including the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). This growing issue has ...

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 and is part of China.

Xinjiang is the Chinese name for the 656,000-square-mile territory. Many Uighurs in the region and beyond refer to the vast territory as East Turkestan (or Turkistan) to protest China's actions in ...

The north-western regions known to some as East Turkestan and their Muslim inhabitants ... terrorism and deradicalisation efforts in Xinjiang have been all along conducted on the track of the ...

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state, is pledging to press Thailand to prevent the deportation of 48 Uyghurs held there since 2014 after fleeing alleged ...

And U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice had "a candid exchange" about ETIM during her recent visit to Beijing.

Since the summer of 2024, three new direct air routes have connected the East Turkestan region to major British airports, sparking alarm over the potential use of forced labor in the supply chains.