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 ...

Forced Assimilation and China's Colonial Boarding Schools" to address the cultural assimilation of the Uyghur community in East Turkestan. The speakers included social activists, human rights ...

Xinjiang has been under control of China since it was annexed in 1949. Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist ...

This group, known as the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), has called for violent actions in Xinjiang, a region in ... including the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). This growing issue has ...

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 and is part of China.

The eastern part of the region fell under Chinese rule, and was renamed Xinjiang, or New Frontier. Each time Chinese rule weakened, as in the 1930's and 1940's, short-lived East Turkestan Republics ...

Xinjiang, often referred to as East Turkestan by Uyghurs and the Turkish diaspora, is home to nearly 12 million ethnically Turkic and Muslim Uyghurs. Experts highlight the Uyghurs' significance in ...

AS REBELS STORMED across Syria late last year, eventually toppling the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, some were ...

The north-western regions known to some as East Turkestan and their Muslim inhabitants ... terrorism and deradicalisation efforts in Xinjiang have been all along conducted on the track of the ...

Uyghur Turks criticized the Chinese government and accused it of carrying out “genocide" in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Demonstrators carried East Turkestan flags and chanted "Freedom ...