Uyghur refugees in Turkey fear about deportation to China after Chinese minister’s go to to Ankara

Uyghur refugees but to get Turkish citizenship, are anxious about deportation post-Turkey’s Interior Minister’s discussions together with his Chinese counterpart.

Sources aware of the assembly’s proceedings revealed that the Chinese facet has requested the Turkish authorities to deport a few of the recognized Uyghur refugees staying in Turkey to China earlier than they’re accepted in Canada, in accordance with the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS). “The timing of the Chinese security delegation’s visit is noteworthy, given the backdrop of Canadian Parliament recently passing a bill to accept 10,000 Uyghur refugees from Turkiye and Central Asia region,” mentioned one Uyghur refugee, as reported by IFFRAS.

The Vice-Minister of Public Security of China, Du Hongwei, in November 2022, met the Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu in Ankara (Turkey).

The Uyghurs have been anxious concerning the secrecy surrounding the assembly attended by the Turkish migration administration officers accountable for granting Turkey’s citizenship to the Uyghurs. Also attending the assembly was the Chinese Ambassador to Turkey, reported IFFRAS.

Turkey is dwelling to about 50,000 Uyghurs, the biggest Uyghur Diaspora outdoors the Central Asian area.

“Uyghur refugees already receiving Turkish citizenship are not in danger. But on the line are those still under refugee status and who act independently. What horrors lie ahead are unthinkable,” mentioned the Uyghur refugee.

Recently, some 55 Uyghur organizations referred to as on world leaders to acknowledge December 9 as Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, reported Radio Free Asia (RFA).

On December 9, 2021, an unbiased UK-based Uyghur Tribunal introduced its findings that China dedicated genocide in opposition to Uyghurs and different ethnic minorities in its Xinjiang area.

Uyghur organizations from 20 international locations requested world leaders to take motion to finish the Chinese authorities’s human rights atrocities in opposition to the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs.

“On December 9, 2021, after 18 months of investigations, and reading through hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and holding hearings from witnesses, the Uyghur Tribunal declared China’s crimes in East Turkestan as genocide,” RFA quoted the president of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), Dolkun Isa as saying.

“By declaring this day as Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, we want to draw the international community’s attention to this ongoing genocide. By commemorating the day, we want to mobilize countries, peoples and international organizations to stop the genocide,” he mentioned.

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