It is a scenic drive to Turkestan from Shymkent in Southern Kazakhstan, about 680 km from Almaty, the country’s largest city. The sepia landscape is stark and generally unpeopled, with camel ...

Turkestan (AsiaNews) ... Mongol, Timurid and Shaibanid dynasties, later becoming the capital of the Kazakh Khanate between the 16th and 18th centuries. ...

China’s top security official has linked the deadly vehicle crash this week in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, which killed five people and is being described by Chinese authorities as a terrorist ...

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement ... Hundreds of people were killed in 2009 when riots erupted in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi, with the violence primarily targeting China's majority Han.

East Turkestan is a politically charged, historical name for all or part of Xinjiang, ... In 2009, race riots in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, killed almost 200 people, ...