Xinjiang conflict

A man walks under the Turkish flag during a curfew in the COVID-19 pandemic in Istanbul, May 23, 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN

"Incidents of transnational repression that took place in Turkey accounted for a quarter of the total recorded by Freedom House last year," the report said.

The U.S. Senate passed a bill on May 14 to direct President Donald Trump to sanction officials in China over the country's treatment of the Uyghur community in its northwestern region of Xinjiang.  

A Japanese artist whose manga comics about a Uighur woman went viral wants to use the simple power of her work to raise awareness of the "daily suffering" endured by the Chinese mostly Muslim minority, she told Reuters.

Sixteen Turkish women were sentenced to death in Iraq because membership in the Islamic State terrorist organization, Reuters and TASS reported, referring to the judiciary. The penalties are to be enforced by hanging.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that the two countries should deepen counter-terrorism cooperation, amid Chinese concern about ethnic Uighurs from its Xinjiang region fighting with militants in the Middle East.

A man has allegedly been arrested after a suspected terrorist attack in central Stockholm. Some reports say a second man has also been detained, while police are looking for a third individual in connection to the attack.
At least five people have been killed in the Swedish capital after a truck drove into shoppers in the busy Drottninggatan area.

China has appointed its first counter-terrorism chief, state media said on Dec. 21, as it wages a controversial campaign to stamp out ethnic violence linked to the western Xinjiang region.

China will prosecute the former editor-in-chief of the official Communist Party publication in the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang on charges of corruption after he expressed doubt about government policies, the paper said on Nov. 2. 

Hundreds have died in the last few years in Xinjiang unrest blamed by the government on Islamist militants. 

Pakistan has eliminated all members of the Uighur militant group the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) from its territory, but must remain vigilant to ensure they don't return, the country's defence minister said in Beijing on Oct. 18. 

China will maintain "heavy pressure" to defeat militants in its far western region of Xinjiang, China's fourth most senior leader said during a visit to its ethnic Uighur heartland, urging religious figures to take the lead in opposing extremism.