Honestly You cannot expect us Turks sit back and watch de-Islamization and Identification of Muslim Turks in East Turkestan, and say nothing. Would you stay silent and inaction for any family member of yours in de-islamization and identification camps?
Actually, that's exactly what you're expected to do. See, what happened here is a microcosm of what's happening geopolitically. China's rise is reorienting the world order, and the frustration you feel is one of the effects of that reorientation.
Everybody knows what's happening in
Xinjiang (there's no such thing as "East Turkestan" and there never will be), but everybody knows better than to antagonize China. The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia - the son of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques - just concluded the main event of his Asia tour - his visit to China - by reaffirming China's right to enact whatever policies it wishes to secure itself. He didn't have to say that, he could've just not commented on the matter - but he's a smart man, and he sees where the world is going.
Even Erdogan can't help but feel the power of China, however much he hates it. In 2009 he personally, publicly called what's happening in Xinjiang "genocide" and verbally assaulted China (when what was happening then doesn't hold a candle to what's happening now). Today, some Turkish foreign ministry spokesperson asks China, pretty please with a cherry on top, don't be so mean, maybe. All you do is underline that nothing can stop the Remaking of the Uighurs. As I said before, their culture is a result of foreign invaders forcing them to swear fealty to an alien god at the point of a sword. Well, today a new culture is being forced on them, and they will swear fealty to a new god:
Their children and grandchildren will love ^ exactly as much as their parents and grandparents love their old culture and fight bitterly to protect it.
@Dubious, as I mentioned previously, China's rise is reorienting the global order. Pakistan will have a fundamental choice to make in the coming decades: whether it wants to be a winner or it wants to be a loser. Winners associate with winners, losers with losers. A lot of Pakistan's old relations, attachments, and ways of seeing the world are going to have to be reexamined if a new, prosperous, secure, and strong Pakistan is to emerge. As an admirer and well-wisher of Pakistan, I hope it makes the right choice.