China wants Uighurs and Tibetans to conform.
Who are the Uighurs and why is China targeting them?
For this reason many Uighurs in the country are unemployed.
At the time, the way Uighurs used them was unique.
Erkin called this"a reassuring message to Uighurs living" in Turkey.
Uighurs are also not allowed to buy knives in some parts.
Uighurs are discouraged from writing
or speaking in Uighur or celebrating Uighur culture.
Most Uighurs are Muslim,
which is an important part of their life and identity.
Uighurs and other Muslims are forbidden from fasting for the last three years.
Most Uighurs are Muslim
and Islam is an important part of their life and identity.
Erdogan's conspicuous silence in Beijing is making Uighurs even more uncertain about their future.
Instead Uighurs often post statements written in Chinese
attesting to their loyalty to the Chinese state.
The fate of Uighurs in Turkey remains unclear, but they haven't lost all hope yet.
Until now,
Turkey had been the only Islamic country that dared speak up for the Uighurs.
In the past, it was a place where Uighurs published short films, poetry, art and music.
The new regulations also required Uighurs to watch or listen to government propaganda on radio or TV.
Turkey is currently home to some 35,000 Uighurs, Reuters reported this March,
citing the Istanbul-based East Turkestan National Center.
Why exclude the most persecuted minorities in the region, the Rohingya of Myanmar or the Uighurs of China?
They believe the program is
aimed at coercing China's 10 million Uighurs into living secular lives like the Han majority.
Uighurs are a predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnic
group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia.
The Chinese government has detained more than a million Uighurs, Kazakhs
and other ethnic minorities for what it calls voluntary job training.
China says it is pouring money into the Xinjiang region, but some Uighurs say their traditions and freedoms are being crushed.
Business Insider has contacted Turkey's foreign ministry for
comment on whether Turkey would change its policies toward Uighurs' path to Turkish citizenship.
Two weeks before their release, the Uighurs and other Chinese Muslims of different ethnic
ancestry were divided into three groups and given colour codes.
Through this process around 1.5 million Uighurs and other Muslims were determined“untrustworthy”
and scheduled for detention and reeducation in a massive internment camp system.
According to a committee of experts from the United Nations, about one million Uighurs and other minority Turkic-speaking minorities have
been kept in detention centers.
At Guantanamo Bay, the Uighurs are known for picking up television sets
on which women with bared arms appear and hurling them across the room.
China resolutely denies all such allegations,
claiming the camps to be‘educational centres' where the Uighurs are being cured of“extremist thoughts” and radicalisation,
and learning vocational skills.
Radical Muslim Uighurs have killed hundreds in recent years, and China considers
the region a threat to peace in a country where the majority is Han Chinese.