atatwolf
BANNED
- Joined
- Jul 15, 2012
- Messages
- 6,965
- Reaction score
- -19
- Country
- Location
hina has lashed out at Turkey for offering shelter to roughly 200 Uighurs from the western Chinese region of Xinjiang who were rescued from a human-smuggling camp in Thailand.
Thai police found the group in March and Chinese officials identified “dozens” of them as Uighurs, a Muslim people from Xinjiang who speak a Turkic language. Many Uighurs chafe at government curbs on their culture and religion.
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency on Nov. 26 reported a request by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu for Thailand to send the Uighurs there, a move that angered China, which views their move to Thailand as “illegal immigration.”
Turkey asked ‘not to meddle’
Asked for a response on Turkey’s offer, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the case was a matter for China and Thailand and “the relevant country” should stop interfering.
“We urge the relevant country to immediately stop meddling in placement work for the relevant case, be cautious with words and actions and not send out mistaken signals that connive in, and even support, illegal immigration activities,” Hua said in a faxed statement to Reuters.
“Illegal immigration activities disrupt the normal orderly flow of people internationally, harm the interests of the international community, and can harm security of the relevant countries and regions,” Hua added.
Small numbers of Uighurs trickling out of China to Southeast Asia are believed to go overland into Laos or Myanmar, before going to Thailand and elsewhere.
Turkey is home to thousands of Uighurs who have fled Xinjiang since the Chinese Communists took over the region in 1949. It has projected itself as a stable Muslim democracy, a key player at a time of turmoil and unrest in the Middle East.
“I brought the issue to the notice of the Thai foreign minister in New York and the Chinese foreign minister in Beijing as well, and told them Turkey wants to shelter those Uighurs,” Anadolu Agency cited Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu as saying.
In the past two years, hundreds of people have been killed in unrest in Xinjiang, prompting a crackdown by authorities.
Turkey and Russia initial deals to further cultivate trade ties | Economy | Daily Sabah
WTF? What do Chinese think they are? China is meddling in places all over the world through UN. They meddle in Syria and keep the bloodshed going there. They meddle in the business of Thailand and Japan but they want nobody say their opinion about the crimes they are commiting on Muslims? China has been occupying east-Turkistan for 60 years. Stealing their lands and rights and Uighur that are running away with their families are getting accepted in Turkey because if they go back they will get murdered. What is wrong with this? It is every country's responsbility to help these people. IMHO we should help Japan, Thailand, Indonesia to build up their army in case China they continue to show aggression and cross the line we need to be ready.
Last edited: