Turkey attacks China ‘genocide’
Editor | Jul 10, 2009 | Comments 0
Turkey’s prime minister has described ethnic violence in China’s Xinjiang region as "a kind of genocide". "There is no other way of commenting on this event," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. He spoke after a night-time curfew was reimposed in Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, where Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese clashed last Sunday. The death toll from the violence there has now risen from 156 to 184, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reports. More than 1,000 people were injured. Turkey, a predominantly Muslim country, shares linguistic and religious links with the Uighurs in China’s western-most region. Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Urumqi After Friday’s prayers, a small group…
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