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 ...

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 ...

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.

The group seeks to establish an Islamist Uyghur separatist state called "East Turkestan" across Xinjiang, where ETIM waged a violent campaign from the late 1990s through the early 2010s.

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 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.

As the East Turkestan Exiled Government, ... Lithuania, and the UK have officially recognize China’s ongoing genocide of Uyghur and other Turkic peoples in East Turkistan. ...

"Turkey has made efforts to limit Uyghur activism within its borders," he said, "but many Uyghur and East Turkestan groups and individuals operate within Turkish law, making it impossible for the ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...