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'China's well treatment of Uighurs priority of Turkey'
Ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) spokesperson Ömer Çelik emphasized in a statement late Tuesday that Turkey is closely following the...www.dailysabah.com
'China's well treatment of Uighurs priority of Turkey'
BY DAILY SABAH
ISTANBUL DIPLOMACY
FEB 23, 2021 8:35 PM GMT+3
Ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) spokesman Ömer Çelik speaks during a press conference in Ankara on Feb. 13, 2021 (AA Photo)
"Turkey's utmost priority is that Uighur Turks in China are treated well," ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) spokesman Ömer Çelik said in a statement late Tuesday.
"We follow footage from region with concern," he added.
"Only way to eliminate bad news coming from region is for China to end some of its unfavorable practices against Uighur Turks," he said.
In a statement in late last year, Çelik also urged China to correct its policies. "A clear distinction must be made between terrorists and innocent civilians," he said.
The Foreign Ministry also previously said that Turkey is concerned over the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, adding that Ankara expected Uighurs to be treated as equal citizens of China.
According to the ministry, a Turkish committee voiced Ankara’s concerns over Uighurs at the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
"While respecting China’s territorial integrity, the expectations of our country and the international community from Chinese authorities is that Xinjiang’s Uighur Turks and other Muslim minorities live in peace as equal citizens of China and that their cultural and religious identities are respected, as well as guaranteed," the committee said.
It was stated that Turkey, as a country with ethnic, religious and cultural ties with Uighur Turks, is monitoring reports on human rights violations against the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities with concern.
Turkey reminded China of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s (CERD) eight recommendations made in August 2018. “The committee's concerns and suggestions are also valid today and steps have to be taken in this manner,” it said.
The statement said that Turkey would continue constructive and direct dialogue with China in this regard while following the issue on international platforms including the U.N. and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
In a separate statement, the ministry stressed once again that Turkey placed high importance on the peace, security, happiness and welfare of the Uighur Turkic people. "Our country has a national line regarding this issue and made a national declaration within this scope," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hami Aksoy said.
Beijing's policy in Xinjiang has drawn widespread criticism from rights groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The region is home to 10 million Uighurs. The Turkic Muslim group, which makes up around 45% of Xinjiang's population, has long accused China's authorities of cultural, religious and economic discrimination.
Up to 1 million people, or about 7% of the Muslim population in Xinjiang, have been incarcerated in an expanding network of "political reeducation" camps, according to U.S. officials and U.N. experts.
Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uighur population as genocide
Parliament’s move was not supported by Trudeau and likely to raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations
Umer Jan attends a rally on 19 February outside the Canadian embassy to encourage Canada in labeling China’s treatment of its Uighur population as genocide. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters
Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Mon 22 Feb 2021 16.27 EST
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Canada has become the second country in the world to describe China’s treatment of its Uighur minority as a genocide, following a contentious parliamentary vote which is likely to further raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations.
Lawmakers approved the non-binding motion, brought forward by opposition Conservatives, to recognize China’s actions in the north-western Xinjiang province as a genocide against Muslim Uighurs.
Prime minister Justin Trudeau and senior members of cabinet did not attend the vote on Monday. All other Liberal members present voted in favour of the motion, except the foreign affairs minister, Marc Garneau, who abstained on behalf of the government.
By calling the actions in China a genocide, Canada joins the United States, which made the determination shortly before Donald Trump left office. A similar attempt on a vote in the UK failed earlier this month.
But the move by the Canadian parliament is likely to bring a host of new political challenges for the prime minister, who has tried in recent years to strike a balance between pushing back against China’s hostilities and maintaining cordial relations with Beijing.
Trudeau, whose Liberal party governs without a parliamentary majority, had previously spoken out against bringing the motion to a vote, telling reporters that genocide was an “extremely loaded” term and that more study of the issue was needed before a determination could be made.
Over the weekend, China’s ambassador to Canada criticized the vote, telling the Canadian Press that officials in Ottawa should stay out of China’s internal politics.
“We firmly oppose that because it runs counter to the facts. And it’s like, you know, interfering in our domestic affairs,” said Cong Peiwu. “There’s nothing like genocide happening in Xinjiang at all.”
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More than 1 million Uighurs have been detained in camps in Xinjiang province, and reports have emerged of systematic rape and sexual violence. China denies such allegations and describes the facilities as vocational and educational training centres, saying it is trying to stamp out extremism.
But last October, a Canadian parliamentary subcommittee determined that China’s treatment of Uighurs constituted a genocide.
The motion is likely to escalate tensions between the two countries, whose relationship has already undergone significant strain since the arrest on a US warrant of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou in December 2018. Within days, two Canadian citizens – Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor – were detained in China.
Canada has described the men’s detention as “hostage diplomacy”.
Ahead of the vote, the Conservative leader, Erin O’Toole, had said the motion was necessary to send a “clear and unequivocal signal that we will stand up for human rights and the dignity of human rights, even if it means sacrificing some economic opportunity”.
The Conservatives, New Democrats, Bloc Québécois and Greens have all called for sanctions against Chinese officials and for the upcoming Olympic Winter Games to be moved from Beijing.
Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uighur population as genocide
Parliament’s move was not supported by Trudeau and likely to raise diplomatic tensions between the two nationswww.theguardian.com
Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uighur population as genocide
Parliament’s move was not supported by Trudeau and likely to raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations
Umer Jan attends a rally on 19 February outside the Canadian embassy to encourage Canada in labeling China’s treatment of its Uighur population as genocide. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters
Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Mon 22 Feb 2021 16.27 EST
1,041
Canada has become the second country in the world to describe China’s treatment of its Uighur minority as a genocide, following a contentious parliamentary vote which is likely to further raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations.
Lawmakers approved the non-binding motion, brought forward by opposition Conservatives, to recognize China’s actions in the north-western Xinjiang province as a genocide against Muslim Uighurs.
Prime minister Justin Trudeau and senior members of cabinet did not attend the vote on Monday. All other Liberal members present voted in favour of the motion, except the foreign affairs minister, Marc Garneau, who abstained on behalf of the government.
By calling the actions in China a genocide, Canada joins the United States, which made the determination shortly before Donald Trump left office. A similar attempt on a vote in the UK failed earlier this month.
But the move by the Canadian parliament is likely to bring a host of new political challenges for the prime minister, who has tried in recent years to strike a balance between pushing back against China’s hostilities and maintaining cordial relations with Beijing.
Trudeau, whose Liberal party governs without a parliamentary majority, had previously spoken out against bringing the motion to a vote, telling reporters that genocide was an “extremely loaded” term and that more study of the issue was needed before a determination could be made.
Over the weekend, China’s ambassador to Canada criticized the vote, telling the Canadian Press that officials in Ottawa should stay out of China’s internal politics.
“We firmly oppose that because it runs counter to the facts. And it’s like, you know, interfering in our domestic affairs,” said Cong Peiwu. “There’s nothing like genocide happening in Xinjiang at all.”
'Our souls are dead': how I survived a Chinese 're-education' camp for Uighurs
Read more
More than 1 million Uighurs have been detained in camps in Xinjiang province, and reports have emerged of systematic rape and sexual violence. China denies such allegations and describes the facilities as vocational and educational training centres, saying it is trying to stamp out extremism.
But last October, a Canadian parliamentary subcommittee determined that China’s treatment of Uighurs constituted a genocide.
The motion is likely to escalate tensions between the two countries, whose relationship has already undergone significant strain since the arrest on a US warrant of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou in December 2018. Within days, two Canadian citizens – Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor – were detained in China.
Canada has described the men’s detention as “hostage diplomacy”.
Ahead of the vote, the Conservative leader, Erin O’Toole, had said the motion was necessary to send a “clear and unequivocal signal that we will stand up for human rights and the dignity of human rights, even if it means sacrificing some economic opportunity”.
The Conservatives, New Democrats, Bloc Québécois and Greens have all called for sanctions against Chinese officials and for the upcoming Olympic Winter Games to be moved from Beijing.
Canada votes to recognize China’s treatment of Uighur population as genocide
Parliament’s move was not supported by Trudeau and likely to raise diplomatic tensions between the two nationswww.theguardian.com
That doesn't go in quotes. China is already a superpower by every measure, and they haven't invented the word yet for what it will be called in the future.
Frankly speaking, that's true. But the capacity for any nuanced discussion about China's policy toward its Uighur population (and its minority populations in general) has been obliterated by Western propaganda.As far as the Uyghur's are concerned, from what I've seen it's not great.
Bottom line is the Western world is on a rapid decline in every area. Europe is the sick man of the world and barely clinging onto any relevance. The Anglo-Saxon era is coming to an end too. This petrifies them because the next most powerful civilisation is China. They fear China’s scale, efficiency and unity.