Its inhabitants refer to their country as Turkestan or East Turkestan. It was conquered by China in the middle of the 18th century, around the same time the British took Bengal, their first ...

ETIM drew public attention ahead of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, when the group, under the name of the Turkestan Islamic Party, claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Xinjiang and ...

China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region—called "East Turkestan" by many Uighurs—has experienced numerous violent incidents since inter-ethnic riots rocked the region's capital, Urumqi, in ...

Dolkun Isa, former president of the World Uyghur Congress and a leading Uyghur rights advocate, has raised alarm over the ...

Introduction. The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is a Muslim separatist group founded by militant Uighurs, members of the Turkic-speaking ethnic majority in northwest China’s Xinjiang ...

Some Uighurs, nostalgic for Xinjiang's intermittent periods of independence, call for the recreation of a Uighur state. "The Central Asian Uighurs know a great deal about the two East Turkestan ...

Leaning back into the cushioned booth, which is the same sky blue as the East Turkestan flag, Hajim glanced at a nearby picture. It depicts one of the few mosques remaining in Kashgar that ...

Salih Hudayar, foreign minister of East Turkestan Government-in-Exile ... renaming East Turkestan to Xinjiang, which translates to the colony or the new territory in the Chinese language.

The East Turkestan Information Center released a video via the British Broadcasting Corporation prior to the 50th anniversary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 2005, ...

World Uyghur Congress former president and a leading Uyghur rights advocate, Dolkun Isa, has raised alarm over the ongoing persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China's northwest Xinjiang region, which ...