Turkey’s Turkish Things About Xinjiang Uyghurs

11 August 20222 years ago babelfish

Turkey's ambiguous attitude also emerges on the question of Xinjiang Uyghurs. Here because. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

China said it will welcome a Turkish delegation to Xinjiang, two months after the UN human rights chief visited the region to investigate allegations of widespread abuse.

On the sidelines of a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Cambodia, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday that "China has always taken the attitude of being open and transparent about issues relating to Xinjiang ”.

China is lobbying the United Nations to block the release of the Xinjiang report.

Wang pledged to communicate closely on the matter and added that the two countries had closely intertwined interests and similar positions and should promote cooperation, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement.

Cavusoglu said Ankara has firmly adhered to the one-China policy not only on the Taiwan issue but also on Xinjiang issues.

The Xinjiang issue has also been among the most sensitive issues in Chinese-Turkish relations and Ankara's support could potentially be important to China as it is home to some 50,000 Uyghurs, the largest diaspora outside of Central Asia.

Beijing has said that the two countries should respect each other's sovereignty and is concerned that an initiative by Ankara to strengthen the political role of the Organization of Turkish States – a name adopted last November – will increase its influence among Turkish-speaking groups. , including Uyghurs.

Regardless of the Chinese position – on which we have focused on several times – Turkey's dangerously wavering and ambiguous attitude emerges once again, which, let's not forget, is an ally of great importance for NATO.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-cose-turche-della-turchia-sugli-uiguri-dello-xinjiang/ on Wed, 10 Aug 2022 05:45:50 +0000.