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Uyghur women demonstrate in Istanbul against Chinese camps

by DAILY SABAH

ANKARA Mar 08, 2021 - 2:33 pm GMT+3
Muslim Uyghur women hold placards and East Turkestan flags as they demonstrate outside the consulate in Istanbul on Women's Day, demanding news of their relatives near China. Istanbul, Turkey, March 8, 2021 (AFP)
Muslim Uyghur women hold placards and East Turkestan flags as they demonstrate outside the consulate in Istanbul on Women's Day, demanding news of their relatives near China. Istanbul, Turkey, March 8, 2021 (AFP)
by DAILY SABAH Mar 08, 2021 2:33 pm
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Hundreds of Uyghur women in Turkey’s Istanbul staged an International Women's Day march along the Bosporus Monday demanding the closure of Chinese camps in the country’s Xinjiang region.

The protesters chanted "stop the genocide" and "close the camps" as they marched within a few hundred meters of China's walled-off consulate in Istanbul.

"Rape is a crime against humanity," said one poster, in reference to a BBC report alleging systemic rape and forced sterilization of women at the camps, which China says are vocational training centers designed to counter extremism.

Rights groups believe at least 1 million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been incarcerated in camps spread out across the vast northwestern region.

Uyghurs speak a Turkic language and have cultural ties with Turkey that make it a favored destination for avoiding persecution in Xinjiang.

Recently, Good Party (IP) Chairperson Meral Akşener stated that her party will make a request urging the Turkish Parliament to recognize the atrocities committed by China against the Uyghur community as genocide, following in the footsteps of the Canadian and Dutch parliaments.

The Netherlands’ parliament passed a non-binding motion saying that the treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China amounts to genocide, the first European country to make such a statement.

Canada passed a resolution labeling China’s treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide last month.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch, alongside governments of several countries, recently cracked down on China, accusing Chinese authorities of committing serious human rights violations against Muslim minorities in the country’s western region of Xinjiang.

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