After a 12-year pause in high-level visits from Ankara to Beijing, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan visited China this week. His visit includes stops in the Uyghur cities of Urumqi and Kashgar. This visit is significant because Turkey, as a country, has historical and cultural ties with the Uyghurs, hosts one […]
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“Turkish authorities have detained six individuals suspected of spying on Uyghurs in Turkey for China’s intelligence service”, Reuters reports.
The United Nations 78th General Assembly kicks off in New York City, and the global leaders have been arriving at the venue.
From the Editor: This letter was written by Uyghur parents in the Uyghur homeland and submitted to Uyghur Times by Abduweli Ayup, a Uyghur writer and columnist for the Uyghur Times. Dear Honorable President Erdogan, As Uyghurs, we sincerely want to celebrate and congratulate you on once again becoming president. […]
On July 14, the Turkish Parliament’s Human Rights Committee made a decision to decline the establishment of a sub-committee to investigate allegations of human rights violations against Uyghurs. Instead, they chose to assign an existing sub-committee, which had previously focused on racism and Islamophobia during prior legislative terms, to address […]
On the morning of February 6, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the magnitude scale occurred around six cities in the southeastern region of Turkiye. According to observers and scientists, this earthquake was among the strongest since 1500.
At 4:17 a.m. and 13:26 on February 6, the most severe earthquake unseen in 100 years occurred in Türkiye.
Uyghurs in Turkey join their efforts to help earthquake victims in Kahramanmaraş city in southern Turkey. In the mobile kitchen, volunteers prepare and serve Uyghur rice to those who have lost their homes.
Abdullah Alim, a young Uyghur who went to university in the city of Kahramanmaraş, near the center of the Turkish earthquake, was buried in the rubble after a building collapsed. He was rescued and sent to the hospital, where he later passed away.
The hall of the Science and Culture Foundation in the Sefaköy district of Istanbul, where many Uyghurs live in Turkey, is occasionally reserved for activities for Uyghur women. In the past month, activities of different women’s groups on various topics took place there.