The Jiuding market in Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a major agricultural granary. Photo: Ding Lei/Xinhua/AFP.
Thanks to its logistics infrastructure, China has turned Xinjiang into a base for exporting agricultural...
2026-09-29
Mihrigul Tursun, December 4, 2018.(Public Domain/via Wikimedia)
By Guy Denton, September 28, 2026, National Review
When Mihrigul Tursun arrived in the United States, nothing around her made sense.
The food,...
2026-09-28
Opening ceremony of the Ethnic Unity and Progress Publicity Week in Urumqi. From Weibo.
Beijing’s first Ethnic Unity and Progress Publicity Week presented forced assimilation as harmony.
by Rahima Mahmut |...
2026-09-28
FILE – Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen on a billboard with the slogan, “Administer Xinjiang according to law, unite and stabilize the territory, culturally moisturize the territory, enrich the people and rejuvenate the territory,...
2026-09-26
The Second East Turkestan National Army. From X.
China inherited a territorial claim. It also inherited an unanswered political obligation to Uyghurs.
by Asiye Uyghur | Sep 23, 2026 | Featured China
In a scene from the Uyghur...
2026-09-23
Credit: Depositphotos
Trump should raise the ethnic unity law directly with Xi and make clear that attempts to enforce it against people in the United States will not be tolerated.
By Omer Kanat
September 22, 2026, The Diplomat
When...
2026-09-22
Uyghurs across the diaspora use digital platforms to maintain family and community connections—but the same communications can be transformed into tools of surveillance, profiling, and transnational repression. AI-generated.
From...
2026-09-19
Photo: © AP Photo
By Çağla Üren, Euronews Türkçe | September 11, 2026
Turkistan Times translation
Anthropic says it has identified cases in which actors linked to China, Iran and West Africa, as well as commercial spyware...
2026-09-13
Turkistan Times, September 11, 2026
The attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001 did not begin China’s repressive policy in East Turkistan. Its intellectual and administrative foundations were already established during the...
2026-09-12
People demonstrate against China’s policies towards Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities, who are suffering crimes against humanity and genocide, outside the Chinese Embassy in London, United Kingdom on 1 July 2021....
2026-09-11
Abdurehim Gheni (right) is seen here with US Ambassador to the Netherlands Pete Hoekstra on Amsterdam's Dam Square, July 12, 2020. An ethnic Uyghur, Gheni began staging weekly one-man demonstrations in the square in June 2018 over...
2026-09-10
China’s Cross-Border Persecution Mechanism and the Systematic Isolation Facing the Uyghur Diaspora
Turkistan Times, September 7 — Istanbul: On September 5, 2026, Katherine Davies, host of the Save Democracy podcast, held an important...
2026-09-07
A school in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), Chinese propaganda image. From Weibo.
Official documents trace a policy chain from preschool language instruction and boarding schools to mainland classes, vocational training, and labor...
2026-09-03
The People's Republic of China is exerting diplomatic pressure on Türkiye by comparing the Uyghur issue in East Turkistan with Türkiye's terrorism problem. Prof. Dr. Varis Çakan argues that the two cases are entirely different...
2026-08-31
Screenshot from China Daily Online's video, shared via the “We are China” account on Facebook, detailing the automation of cotton production in the Xinjiang region. Fair use.
Uyghur farmers must transfer their labor and land to the...
2026-08-29
The web of control. AI-generated.
A governing model tested in Uyghur homes now shapes overseas networks, business ties, cultural outreach, and policing arrangements worldwide.
by Asiye Uyghur | Aug 26, 2026 | Op-eds China
The...
2026-08-26
Aug 21, 2026, CRG Review
By Leila Isa
Edited by Max Kabjian and Leïla Van Glabeke, Peer Reviewed by Sophie Bright and Alex Bagdade
Introduction
In 1999, a young Uyghur man called Abdullah argued with his local Imam after...
2026-08-22
By SCF -August 21, 2026
China’s growing influence in Turkey’s media landscape is making it increasingly difficult for Uyghur journalists and activists to draw attention to human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Reporters Without Borders...
2026-08-21
By Alex Bagdade On Aug 20, 2026 | The McGill International Review
In January 2023, Mehmet Tohti, a Uyghur Canadian activist, answered a call that appeared to come from Hong Kong. Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights...
2026-08-20
Activists from Amnesty International hold placards as they march during a demonstration in support of the Uyghurs, on the sidelines of the Chinese President's two-day state visit in France, in Toulouse, south-western France, on May 6,...
2026-08-20
