The East Turkistan Government in Exile urges Ireland to condemn China's Xinjiang actions and support East Turkistan's quest ...

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.

The Uighurs in Xinjiang have a history of initiating an independence movement in the 1930s under the name "East Turkestan." Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changing political ...

A leading Uyghur diaspora activist says that Paris should adopt robust sanctions such as those adopted in the United States in recent years. A new series of reports from the ‘western frontier ...

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