A memorial event themed “An Immortal Soul” for the 100th anniversary of the brave poet, and revolutionary Lutpullah Mutallib was held at Istanbul’s Fatih Sultan Mehmet University.
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World Uyghur Writers Union, East Turkistan Foundation, World Uyghur Congress Foundation, and Humayana Turkic World Women’s Union held a ceremony in Istanbul to honor Poet and Professor Sultan Mahmud Kashigi.
On August 26, 2022, a renowned Uyghur folklore writer, cultural researcher, and public figure Mr. Sherip Khushtar, passed away at 100 in Urumqi.
Uyghur poet Ablet Abdureshit Berqi has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
A desperate Uyghur mother in Turkey is looking for his son Abduweli Jappar, a Hotan-born Uyghur who came to Turkey on September 1, 2015, but disappeared 14 days later. Jappar appears to be one of the 397 Uyghurs detained and deported to China, Abduweli Ayup writes in a recent tweet. He says he personally knows at least three other Uyghurs that have disappeared in Turkey. Jappar would be the 4th.
The Chinese authorities have sentenced the renowned Uyghur singer and musician, Tursun Sheyih, to ten years in prison on July 30, 2021, Uyghur Times Uyghur edition reports. Uyghur scholar Abduwali Ayub confirmed the news to Uyghur Times on April 3.
Ablajan Awut Ayup is an Uyghur pop singer who went missing in 2018. Born in 1984, he grew up with his five siblings in a peasant family in the village of Guma in the Hotan district.
In January 2022, Leila Uyghur Foundation published a new book titled ‘Daddy, Daddy, when are you coming home?’ The book aims to teach children about the unique value of ethnicity and deter racial prejudice.
Language is a God-given gift to every nation, which we often take for granted. In the west, a person can exercise freedom of speech without the fear of being detained for one’s words.
Uyghurs, a Turkic people living in Uyghuristan (East Turkistan), are not enjoying these rights. It is practically forbidden for them to use their mother tongue publically or display Uyghur language signs in their occupied homeland.
Today, March 13th marks the 89th anniversary of Abduhalik Uyghur, a well-known Uyghur poet who was tragically beheaded by the Sheng Shicai government in 1933. The poet devoted his life to the freedom of the Uyghur people