Boycott the Olympics because of the Uyghurs? Reggie Littlejohn and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang
May 27, 2021, 02:02 AM
Photo: Founding of the First East Turkestan Republic
The Turkic Islamic Republic of East Turkestan (IRET) was a short-lived breakaway Islamic republic founded on 12 November 1933; it was the first state to style itself an "Islamic republic." It was centred on the city of Kashgar in what is today China-administered Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The ETR was primarily the product of an independence movement of the Uyghur population living there and more broadly of Turkic-ethnicity in character, including Kyrgyz and other Turkic peoples in its government and its population.
Boycott the Olympics because of the Uyghurs? Reggie Littlejohn and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang
The Turkic Islamic Republic of East Turkestan (IRET) was a short-lived breakaway Islamic republic founded on 12 November 1933; it was the first state to style itself an "Islamic republic." It was centred on the city of Kashgar in what is today China-administered Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The ETR was primarily the product of an independence movement of the Uyghur population living there and more broadly of Turkic-ethnicity in character, including Kyrgyz and other Turkic peoples in its government and its population.
Boycott the Olympics because of the Uyghurs? Reggie Littlejohn and Gordon Chang @GordonGChang