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FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator wearing a mask participates in a protest against Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi s visit, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 25, 2021. REUTERS/Kemal Aslan/File Photo
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey called in China’s ambassador on Tuesday after his embassy said it had “the right to respond” to opposition leaders who criticised China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims three decades ago.
The politicians, IYI Party leader Meral Aksener and Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas of the main opposition CHP, had marked what they called the 31st anniversary of a brief uprising by Uighurs against the government in China’s far west.
ANKARA: Turkey’s latest arrest wave targeting former admirals who signed a critical night-time declaration has stirred debate over whether the crackdown is a result of the country’s “Eurasianist shift.”
On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused 104 former navy commanders of trying to stage a “political coup” through an open letter that criticized the government’s new 45 kilometer-long artificial waterway, dubbed Kanal Istanbul, and its immediate impact on the 1936 Montreux Convention that regulates the traffic of warships in the Istanbul strait.
Among the signatories, the most notable name was Cem Gurdeniz, the mastermind of Turkey’s controversial maximalist maritime doctrine, known as Blue Homeland.
Kazakh Activism Against China s Internment Camps Is Broken, But Not Dead
April 04, 2021 12:12 GMT
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When 67-year-old pensioner Qalida Akytkhan decided to join a small protest outside the Chinese Consulate in Almaty, it was three years after three of her sons were detained at a so-called reeducation camp in China s northwestern Xinjiang region.
Akytkhan has since become a mainstay at the pickets that, despite police intimidation, have endured outside the consulate since early February. She has joined dozens of other protesters who say their relatives are missing, jailed, or trapped in China s ongoing crackdown.
United Nations human rights officials estimate that a million or more Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities are detained at camps in a vast Chinese internment system.
Patriotic Chinese stars become headaches for K-pop agencies
Posted : 2021-04-04 16:03
Updated : 2021-04-04 17:47 A cotton picker works in the field in China s Xinjiang region in this Oct. 9, 2020, photo. AP-Yonhap
Some Chinese K-pop idols support Xinjiang cotton accused of using forced labor
By Park Han-sol
Several K-pop bands former and current Chinese members have caused a stir with their apparent support for cotton produced in China s Xinjiang region accused of using forced labor.
Their open support for the Chinese government over the controversy has troubled their agencies which are wary of possible fallout from fans. Anti-China sentiment is in full swing in Korea these days as seen in the recently scrapped SBS TV drama, Joseon Exorcist, over distorting history and belittling Korean culture by depicting distinctly Chinese foods and fashion.
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