Uyghur advocacy in Northern Virginia and D.C. Many Uyghurs left East Turkestan when the CCP intensified its persecution after the Ghulja Massacre in 1997, a major Uyghur protest of the CCP’s ...

Nurmehmet was arrested in May 2023 for accusations of garnering support and funding an East Turkestan while he was studying in Turkey between 2010 – 2016.

The Uyghur genocide in East Turkestan is unfolding with support from the Muslim world, influenced by China’s strategic interests in oil and the Belt and Road Initiative.

Istanbul [Turkey], February 6 (ANI): The International Union of Turkestan Organizations (IUETO) led a significant protest to ...

The Turkic Islamic Republic of East Turkestan, based in what is now the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, existed from 1933 to 1934 before its forces were defeated by Chinese warlord Sheng Shicai ...

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 ...

The name Xinjiang was slapped on the Uyghur homeland in 1884, after its conquest by China’s last imperial dynasty. ... Many Uyghurs yearn for a return to an independent East Turkestan, ...

East Turkestan, where the Uyghur ethnic group faces significant human rights abuses, has become a focal point of international scrutiny, Politico reported.

East Turkestan, an occupied country located in the heart of Asia, ... sending Chinese government soldiers to Uyghur and Turkish homes to ensure that these people aren't fasting, ...

Abdurresid Eminhaci, general secretary of the Turkey-based Association of International East Turkestan NGOs, has suffered the same experience. His father was detained in 2017 without reason.

The World Uyghur Congress is an international organisation of exiled Uyghur groups aspires to "represent the collective interest of the Uyghur people" both inside and outside of the Xinjiang ...

East Turkestan—the Xinjiang region of China—is the homeland of the Uyghur population. Uyghurs who have fled persecution in China are preserving their culture in exile.