"Xinjiang riots damage Sino-Turkish ties
By Delphine Strauss in Ankara
Published: July 14 2009 22:29 | Last updated: July 14 2009 22:29
“The martyrs of East Turkestan are our martyrs,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then mayor of Istanbul, said in 1995 as he inaugurated a park named in honour of Isa Yusuf Alptekin, the Uighur independence leader who had died in exile in Turkey."
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