Protests erupt across Turkey over Chinese atrocities in Xinjiang

ISTANBUL: Uyghur and Turkish NGOs staged demonstrations in many parts of Turkey on Sunday to protest Chinese authorities’ atrocities in the Xinjiang region under the guise of controlling the Covid-19 pandemic.
The East Turkestan International NGO Union led by its leader Hidayetullah Oghuzhan staged a large protest and made a press statement at 2:00 p.m. local time outside the Chinese consulate in Sariyer, Istanbul. An estimated 1,000 to 1,200 people, including the elderly, women and children, participated in the protest.
“….Our Uyghur brothers are being systematically massacred by China….their homes are closed…under the pretext of a pandemic….they are dying of hunger and disease…in the fire that is burning is declared….our brothers were killed by burning down their houses, where they were trapped…”, said the president of the Turkish NGO Yesevi Alperenler Association, Kursat Mican.
Hidayetullah pledged that the Uyghurs would be ready to sacrifice their being and their lives for the independence of East Turkestan and that they would continue their fight with perseverance.
East Turkestan New Generation Movement, a Turkish NGO, Young IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation and Young IDSB-Union of Islamic/Islamic World NGOs Duniyasi Sivil Toplum Kuruluslari Birligi also held a prayer meeting earlier at Istanbul’s Fatih Mosque . Uyghur leader Abdusselam Teklamekan, Muhammed Mematali, who lost four siblings in the Urumqi fire, and theologian Ahmet Bulut were among those who spoke.
The Turkish NGO Anadolu Genclik Dernegi (AGD) had also called for demonstrations in different places against Chinese atrocities in East Turkestan.
AGD Istanbul branch held another protest and press release in the evening at 8:00 p.m. near the Chinese consulate in Sariyer district. AGD activists led by Provincial President Mehmet Yaroglu and Uyghurs protested Chinese atrocities and genocide.
The local branch of Bursa AGD organized a protest and press release after morning prayers near Bursa Ulucami Mosque. Taha Nargis, chairman of the Bursa AGD branch academic commission, issued a statement and accused the “imperial and murderous” Chinese state of carrying out “systematic massacres in East Turkestan…our brothers, sisters and Uyghur children have been martyred by not intervening in the fire that broke out recently,” according to the press release.
AGD also organized after-prayer protests and press releases in other locations, including the capital Ankara (near Haji Bayram Veli Mosque), Adiyaman, Balikesir, Corum, Isparta, Kirsehir, Kutahya, Malatya, Mersin, Usak, among others.
These protests were accentuated after the death of several Uyghurs in the fire of a residential building in Urumqi.

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