On April 15, 2023, the Almaty branch of the Uyghur Ethno-Cultural Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Council of Scholars, and the Uyghur Youth Union of Kazakhstan held a virtual international conference dedicated to the 60th birthday of Nabijan Tursun, a well-known Uyghur scholar and historian.
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UK Labour Party to Declare China’s Treatment of Uyghurs as ‘Genocide’
The World Uyghur Congress and Human Rights Watch held a joint press conference at the Munich Security Conference on the Chinese threat to the Uyghurs’ security and the democratic world.
Uyghur refugee dies after almost nine years of arbitrary detainment in Thailand´s immigration detention facility, World Uyghur Congress (WUC) writes in a press release.
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.
Since December 31, 2022, videos of an Uzbek citizen named Muradjan visiting Yining, Urumqi, Kashgar, Yerkan, and other regions of our motherland started appearing on the Zerkalo Vostoka (Mirror of the East) YouTube channel.
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.