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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the East Turkestan independence movements (and their successors today) were largely based on ethnonationalist arguments about a homeland for Turkic-speaking Uyghurs, since the turn of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite China officially calling its occupation of East Turkestan “the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang,” Urumqi radio reported in 1952 and 1954 that a total of 150,000 “enemies of China ...

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 ...

Blinken has already accused China of coercion and aggression at home and around the region. Hong Kong protesters hold East Turkestan Uyghur flags at a rally in support of Xinjiang Uighurs’ human ...

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 ...