The BBC a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8149379.stm" reports /a that the Chinese government has demanded that the Turkish Prime Minister retract his comments that there is a 'genocide' in Xinjiang. The use of the term "genocide" does seem to be rather overblown in this situation.br /br /It seems that, given that Turkey seems to be quite concerned about the fate of the Uighurs, that there is still strong pan-Turkic sentiment in Turkey. I thought that idea had somewhat declined since the time of Attaturk. However, it seems a vein of pan-Turkic sentiment does still exist in Turkey, even in the Islamist government of the AKP. They are not happy with the way that the Turkic-speaking Uighur people are being treated by the Han-dominated Chinese state.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38622711-3889851785886347474?l=vinospoliticalblog.blogspot.com'//div
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