"Are China’s Uyghurs Operating an al-Qaeda Network in Turkey? Ankara and Beijing Discuss Cooperation Against Terrorism
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 7 Issue: 30
October 1, 2009 04:21 PM Age: 2 hrs
Category: Terrorism Monitor, Global Terrorism Analysis, Home Page, Military/Security, Terrorism, China and the Asia-Pacific, Turkey
By: Emrullah Uslu
Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan paid an official visit to China and met Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao as a special envoy of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on August 31. Caglayan is the first Turkish minister to visit China after July’s Uyghur unrest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in which 197 people died according to the official tally. “We want to strengthen and improve bilateral relations with the principle of mutual respect, equality and interest,' Wen Jiabao said (Anadolu Ajansi, August 31)."
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