ANKARA: Turkey on Saturday condemned China’s treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people. "The systematic assimilation policy of Chinese authorities towards Uighur Turks is a great embarrassment for humanity,” Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said in a statement. "It is no longer a secret that more than one million Uighur Turks – who are exposed to arbitrary arrests - are subjected to torture and political brainwashing in concentration centers and prisons,” he said. Aksoy also said Turkey had learned of the "tragic” death in custody Saturday of Uighur poet and musician Abdurehim Heyit. – AFP
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In this Saturday, July 4, 2015 file photo, Uighurs living in Turkey and their supporters, some carrying coffins representing Uighurs who died in China’s far-western Xinjiang Uighur region, chant slogans as they stage a protest in Istanbul, against what they call as oppression by Chinese government to Muslim Uighurs in the province. In a statement Saturday Feb. 9, 2019, Turkey’s foreign ministry has called China’s treatment of its minority Uighurs “a great cause of shame for humanity.” The Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said it’s “no longer a secret” that China has arbitrarily detained more than a million Uighurs in “concentration camps.” AP PHOTO
Turkey slams treatment of Uighurs
February 10, 2019 08:58 PM