but increased Chinese presence in the country is altering the status quo with significant risk for Beijing The Taliban have long provided members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM ...

European Cargo has also launched direct flights from East Turkestan to Cardiff and Bournemouth, transporting goods for e-commerce, including a "milestone flight" carrying 59 tons of packages to ...

She taught me our true history. Adel Abdulghufor is a Uyghur Muslim from Kashgar, in what he calls the country of East Turkestan. Officially, the region is called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ...

Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist views that are a threat to security. They point to attacks in 2013 and ...

One spelling for one people! How about “Xinjiang Province” versus “East Turkestan”? “We all hate that ‘Xinjiang,’” says Gul, with a bite and a laugh. The name “Xinjiang” means ...

from Russia to the seaboard of Asia on the east in a direct line traversing a vast area, a great part of which still remains unexplored, especially in Korea and Russian Turkestan, although ...

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