ANKARA – Turkey has condemned China’s alleged mistreatment of more than onemillion Uighur Muslims in “internment camps,” urging Beijing to respect thefundamental rights of the Turkic-speaking minority.
“The policy of systematic assimilation against the Uighur Turks carried outby the authorities of China is a great shame for humanity,” Turkish ForeignMinistry spokesman Hami Aksoy said late Saturday.
The existence of internment camps was first brought up by Western mediapaying extraordinary attention to the subject in recent months amid agrowing trade dispute with China.
A UN human rights panel has cited estimates that 2 million Uighurs andMuslim minorities have been forced into “political camps forindoctrination” in the western Xinjiang autonomous region.
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Beijing vehemently denies this as well as other reports that Uighurs areunfairly marginalized and says it is addressing underdevelopment and lackof jobs in heavily Uighur areas such as Xinjiang.
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