At the age of 5, she came to Turkey from East Turkestan with her family.[1] She received ballet training at her mother Gülzade Tanrıdağlı’s ballet and dance school in Istanbul.[2] After graduating from elementary school, she entered the Istanbul State Conservatory affiliated with Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. She studied […]
Uyghur Academy, an Istanbul-based educational group, announced on May 30 that it has published the five-part “Uyghur Language and Literature Textbook Series” designed for Uyghur youth in Istanbul. The group stated, “These textbooks are the first systematically produced, complete five-year textbook materials for primary school students, prepared with the efforts […]
Pakistan continues to serve as a hub for China’s propaganda, disseminating misleading narratives about the Uyghur human rights situation in Uyghur homeland. Recently, several Western parliaments have recognized the persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic people in the region as genocide, while the United Nations and the European Parliament have […]
The Uyghur homeland, central to allegations of forced labor in China’s seafood industry, has markedly increased its seafood production. The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, or Bingtuan, a corporate unit of the Chinese army, reported a production value of CNY 112 million (USD 15.6 million, EUR 14.5 million) in Q1 […]
May 17, 2024 By Carol Kerbaugh Activist and human rights advocate Sayid Abdull MC/MPA 2024 is focused on preserving Uyghur culture through policymaking and storytelling. — Sayid Abdull MC/MPA 2024 has stories to tell—his own and countless others. A Uyghur activist and human rights advocate, Abdull will graduate from the Mid-Career Master […]
China has wound down its re-education camps, but is still using work to remould the thinking of Uyghurs In a village near the ancient Silk Road town of Yarkand, on the edge of the Taklamakan desert in the far-western region of Xinjiang, the gongzuodui has been busy. The term means “work team”. In […]
May 25, 2024 Uyghur American human rights activist Nury Turkel has resigned as Chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) following allegations of sexual harassment. The UHRP Board accepted his resignation on Friday and appointed former Vice Chair Dr. Justinian Rudelson Ben-Adam as his successor. UHRP, a leading organization […]
The Global Coalition for Language Rights announced the winner of the 2024 Language Rights Defenders Award. “The Global Coalition for Language Rights is delighted to announce Abduweli Ayup as the first winner of our Language Rights Defenders Award. Abduweli Ayup is a Uyghur activist, poet, and linguist. He has fought […]
OSLO, NORWAY (May 22, 2024) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent: Iranian hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, Uyghur poet and activist Tahir Hamut Izgil, and Venezuelan pianist and recording artist Gabriela Montero. HRF said: “Izgil […]
Wed, May 22, 2024 at 5:56 AM EDT· China announced that it has taken countermeasures against 12 U.S. companies involved in the military-industrial complex and their senior executives. This is in response to the U.S. arming of Taiwan and sanctions imposed on Chinese companies. The countermeasures include freezing the companies’ […]