Hundreds of Uighurs protest Chinese minister's Turkey visit
ON Mar 25, nearly 1,000 Uighurs rallied in Istanbul as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Turkey to focus on coronavirus vaccines and the countries' extradition treaty.
Turkey is using the Chinese firm Sinovac's CoronaVac jab in its inoculation effort and is currently negotiating new deliveries.
Uighurs in Turkey fears that China is making new shipments dependent on Turkey's ratification of an extradition treaty that the parliament in Beijing approved late last year.
The protesters waved sky blue flags of Uighurs separatists' self-proclaimed state of East Turkestan as they gathered in Istanbul's historic old town chanting "China, stop the genocide!"
Source: CNA #Mar26
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/turkey-hundreds-uighurs-protest-chinese-minister-wang-yi-visit-14491224
#Turkey #Xinjiang #ChinaGenocide #CovidVaccineDiplomacy #CovidVaccine
ON Mar 25, nearly 1,000 Uighurs rallied in Istanbul as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Turkey to focus on coronavirus vaccines and the countries' extradition treaty.
Turkey is using the Chinese firm Sinovac's CoronaVac jab in its inoculation effort and is currently negotiating new deliveries.
Uighurs in Turkey fears that China is making new shipments dependent on Turkey's ratification of an extradition treaty that the parliament in Beijing approved late last year.
The protesters waved sky blue flags of Uighurs separatists' self-proclaimed state of East Turkestan as they gathered in Istanbul's historic old town chanting "China, stop the genocide!"
Source: CNA #Mar26
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/turkey-hundreds-uighurs-protest-chinese-minister-wang-yi-visit-14491224
#Turkey #Xinjiang #ChinaGenocide #CovidVaccineDiplomacy #CovidVaccine