Uyghurs in Turkey call for boycott as Beijing Games begin

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Hundreds of protesters from China's Muslim Uyghur community rallied in Istanbul to call for a boycott of the Beijing2022 Winter Olympics, urging participants to speak out against China's treatment of the ethnic minority

The Beijing Olympics opened on Friday in the shadow of a diplomatic boycott over China's human rights record and devoid of most spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic."China stop the genocide", "Muslims don't sleep, stand up for your brothers", chanted the protesters, who briefly blocked a road and scuffled with lines of Turkish riot police as they tried to march up a hill towards the Chinese consulate.

Some 50,000 Uyghurs are estimated to live in Turkey, the largest Uyghur diaspora outside Central Asia. Turks have close ethnic, religious and linguistic ties to the Uyghurs.People from China's Uyghur Muslim ethnic group shout slogans during a rally against the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games over China's treatment of the minority, near the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, Turkey February 4, 2022.

China initially denied such camps existed, but has since said they are vocational centres and are designed to combat extremism. It denies all accusations of abuse.

 

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Ask them about the mainly Muslim Kurds and the Alevis … While Erdogan supports Takfiris against Alawites and the Shia in Syria …

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People are suffering because of Chinese Communist Party. BoycottBeijing2022 BoycottBeijingOlympics Beijing2022 UyghurGenocide StandWithHongKong

I knew vicious articles like this will come sooner or later. but it doesn't matter. beijing will definitely success in every single way

Haters gonna hate, we just gonna shake.

The Beijing2022 Winter Olympics opened in the shadow of a diplomatic boycott over China's human rights record and devoid of most spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic

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Uyghur Genocide and Natural Disasters Genocide may have killed more people than any other natural disaster in the world since the 20th century (1901-2013). To be precise, the genocide may have been equal to or greater than the death toll of the top 54 (*2,751,400).

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