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In response to mounting violence in Xinjiang<\/a>\u00a0and elsewhere in China<\/a>, Beijing launched an\u00a0“ultra-tough, unconventional” crackdown on terrorism<\/a>\u00a0last May, and\u00a0recently extended it through the end of 2015<\/a>. Despite increased security measures in Xinjiang, attacks have continued<\/a>.\u00a0Some point to increasingly repressive policies amid the crackdown\u2014restrictions on religious dress<\/a> and custom<\/a>,\u00a0harsh\u00a0sentencings for moderate Uyghur activists<\/a>, or increased regional censorship and surveillance<\/a>, for example\u2014as cause\u00a0for\u00a0the underlying tensions behind continuing violence. (In the regional capital of Urumqi, a ban on the Islamic veil went into effect on February 1, ironically, “World Hijab Day<\/a>.” At ChinaFile, James Leibold and Timothy Grose explain how this could further incense the Uyghur community<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Chinese state media has\u00a0continually alleged<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0tie between Xinjiang\u00a0violence and the global jihad movement<\/a>, and Uyghurs have long had difficulty procuring passports<\/a>\u00a0for international travel. Earlier this month, after two Uyghurs were shot by police<\/a>\u00a0while trying to flee to Vietnam, China’s Ministry of Public Security announced that a majority of the\u00a0800 people apprehended while trying to illegally enter\u00a0Southeast Asia were doing so to access\u00a0jihad training camps<\/a>\u00a0in the Middle East. Another potential motive for the\u00a0desire to flee: to escape state policies in Xinjiang and eventually\u00a0land in Turkey, a country long\u00a0favorable to\u00a0Uyghur refugees and populated by ethnic and linguistic kin<\/a>.\u00a0(Uyghurs detained in Thailand last year claimed to be Turkish, insisting as much<\/a>\u00a0when Chinese diplomats persuaded them to return to China.)\u00a0At Al Jazeera, Sumeyye Ertekin talks to Uyghurs who found refuge from repressive policies and violence\u00a0in Kayseri, Turkey after a long and perilous journey<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

[…AB]\u00a0explains why he left China: \u201cThere is no way we can live there anymore. My wife cannot cover her head. We cannot recite Quran, and even prayer is prohibited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

[…]\u00a0Violent incidents<\/a>, such as a deadly 2013 raid on a mosque during Ramadan, in which his 78-year-old uncle was killed, cemented his decision.<\/p>\n

As for the story of his escape \u2014 an indirect route taken to avoid authorities \u2014 he said, \u201cWe walked in disguise for 28 days because Turkish Uighurs are not allowed to leave East Turkestan \u2026 After 28 days we arrived in Vietnam, where we met with the smugglers who helped us cross the forest area in six days, sometimes on foot and sometimes by car, till we arrived in Cambodia. From there we went to Laos, where we spent two days and then left for Thailand and stayed there for eight days, and again with the help of smugglers, we crossed into Malaysia in small boats at midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were accompanied by another family on the boat trip to Malaysia. They had a 5-year-old girl who fell from her mother\u2019s lap into the sea. We couldn\u2019t save her because none of us knew how to swim. Her mother\u2019s cries are still ringing in my ears,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

AB described the harsh conditions of the trip, saying that they could not carry large amounts of food, fearing it would impede their movement. Their diet consisted primarily of eggs and almonds, and when they were crossing the forest, they ate leaves and drank rainwater.\u00a0[…] [Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recently,\u00a0ten Turkish nationals were taken into custody in Shanghai<\/a> for allegedly helping Uyghurs illegally emigrate from China.<\/p>\n

A report from Jeremy Page and Emre Parker at the Wall Street Journal looks at a row between Beijing and Ankara over Turkey’s continued support for Uyghur refugees. The article also introduces\u00a0Mehmet, a 30-year-old Uyghur who left\u00a0for Turkey (via Southeast Asia) in 2013, and\u00a0exemplifies both a\u00a0desire to escape Beijing’s\u00a0policies in\u00a0Xinjiang and the willingness of some Uyghurs to resort to violence<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

[…]\u00a0He made no secret of wanting to resist Chinese rule. \u201cIf somebody gave me a gun, I would fight,\u201d he said, sitting outside a Uighur activist center in the central-Turkish city of Kayseri. \u201cChina only gives us two options\u2014either we must be exactly like them, or we will be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]\u00a0After graduation, he joined a state-owned company\u2014a coveted job in Xinjiang\u2014but became disillusioned that few Uighurs were employed there. And he resented pressure to drink with prospective business partners, because Islam forbids alcohol consumption.<\/p>\n

By the time of the 2009 Urumqi riots [see CDT coverage<\/a>], he felt such pent-up anger that he joined the violence. He wouldn\u2019t say what he did but said he was jailed for three years.<\/p>\n

[…]\u00a0Mehmet said he has spoken online with Uighurs in Turkey who want to join Islamic State but said he wants to head to Europe to work for the Uighur cause.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would I risk my life fighting in Syria or Iraq?\u201d he asked. \u201cIf I am going to fight, I want to fight for East Turkestan.\u201d [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more on Turkey’s draw to would-be Uyghur refugees, see “5 Things to Know About Turkey and the Chinese Uighurs<\/a>,” also from Jeremy Page and Emre Parker at the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the validity of\u00a0Beijing’s claims that jihadist fomentation from abroad is a\u00a0root cause for violent attacks\u00a0in Xinjiang, avowed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Bagdadhi has labeled\u00a0China a nation threatening the rights of Muslims<\/a>. In light of recent<\/a>\u00a0brutal\u00a0killings<\/a> by IS,\u00a0Tea Leaf Nation’s David Wertime looks at netizen discussion around\u00a0China’s role in combatting the militant group<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

On Weibo, China\u2019s massive\u00a0microblogging platform, users are proving divided about whom to blame in the wake of the latest video. Many continued to\u00a0echo longstanding mainstream media criticism of the United States; Obama \u201ccontinues to swagger and fire off his mouth,\u201d wrote<\/a> one user, while another saw Western \u201cmeddling\u201d and U.S. willingness to \u201cspill blood to benefit economically\u201d in the Middle East at the root of the problem. But many pushed back. One commenter wrote<\/a>, \u201cToday it\u2019s a French person, or a Japanese person, or a Jordanian person; and tomorrow? Is it human life that matters, or giving the U.S. a \u2018headache?\u2019 If we too are to protect world piece, this is also a headache for us.\u201d Another asked, \u201cIf one day ISIS kidnaps one of our own, what will we do? Besides angry online diatribes, we\u2019re just sitting here waiting for a tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Few comments urged action so directly. Rather than calling on China\u2019s government to help, many web users repeatedly called on the U.N. or the world community to mobilize. In some popular comments, like the statement<\/a> that \u201cwe must work together to lay siege\u201d to IS, or the insistence<\/a> that the five members of the Security Council \u201cstrike hard,\u201d the critique of Chinese inaction was thinly veiled. Others seemed ignorant of ongoing efforts; one popular statement called<\/a>\u00a0on \u201cthe world to organize a coalition army\u201d to attack IS, when in fact such a coalition was already organized in September 2014, comprising<\/a> dozens of countries, with the U.S. at the helm. (China has offered<\/a> help, but independent of that coalition, and it\u2019s not clear whether it has followed up.) […] [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amid heightened tensions in Xinjiang and after officials in the similarly troubled Tibet Autonomous Region were “severely punished”<\/a> for separatist activity, the South China Morning Post reports that hundreds of Xinjiang officials are being investigated for Party disloyalty<\/a>. In a separate article, the SCMP notes that a rising CCTV Uyghur celebrity will be a guest host at the state broadcaster’s New Year Gala<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Despite increased security measures in Xinjiang, attacks have continued.\u00a0Some point to increasingly repressive policies amid the crackdown\u2014restrictions on religious dress and custom,\u00a0harsh\u00a0sentencings for moderate Uyghur activists, or increased regional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":985,"featured_media":181055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,14744,14745,14746,100,5],"tags":[92,315,507,5159,6419,306,1116,15460,5921,7184],"class_list":["post-181050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","tag-crackdown","tag-islam","tag-muslims","tag-refugees","tag-southeast-asia","tag-terrorism","tag-turkey","tag-uyghurs","tag-xinjiang","tag-xinjiang-violence","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nA Long and Perilous Road to Turkey for Uyghur Refugees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/02\/long-perilous-road-turkey-uyghur-refugees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Long and Perilous Road to Turkey for Uyghur Refugees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In response to mounting violence in Xinjiang\u00a0and elsewhere in China, Beijing launched an\u00a0“ultra-tough, unconventional” crackdown on terrorism\u00a0last May, and\u00a0recently extended it through the end of 2015. 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