{"id":4503,"date":"2018-11-17T20:21:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T20:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/11\/17\/sinica-podcast-nury-turkel-and-uyghur-plight\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T20:21:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T20:21:02","slug":"sinica-podcast-nury-turkel-and-uyghur-plight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/sinica-podcast-nury-turkel-and-uyghur-plight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinica Podcast: Nury Turkel And The Uyghur Plight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.85; color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;;\">This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by Nury Turkel, a prominent voice in the overseas Uyghur community and the chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, now based in Washington, D.C. We discussed Nury\u2019s own experiences as a Uyghur and an activist both in China and the United States; the increasingly vocal Uyghur diaspora around the world in the wake of widespread detentions in Xinjiang; the relative absence of state-level pushback outside of China; and the international organizations that advocate for Uyghur rights in China and the accompanying pushback from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.85; color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;;\">If you aren\u2019t yet up to speed on the deteriorating state of affairs for Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, take a look at<a href=\"https:\/\/supchina.com\/2018\/08\/22\/xinjiang-explainer-chinas-reeducation-camps-for-a-million-muslims\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s; color: rgb(221, 51, 51) !important;\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/supchina.com\/2018\/08\/22\/xinjiang-explainer-chinas-reeducation-camps-for-a-million-muslims\/\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s; color: rgb(221, 51, 51) !important;\" target=\"_blank\">SupChina\u2019s explainer<\/a>&nbsp;for a comprehensive overview of the reporting of information from October 2017 through August 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; width: 681px; height: auto; clear: none;\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2096020935847107\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; background-color: transparent;\"><ins id=\"aswift_1_expand\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; border-width: initial; border-style: none; height: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 681px; background-color: transparent;\"><ins id=\"aswift_1_anchor\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; border-width: initial; border-style: none; height: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 681px; background-color: transparent; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;\"><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"171\" hspace=\"0\" id=\"aswift_1\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" name=\"aswift_1\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 681px; height: 171px;\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"681\"><\/iframe><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.85; color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">What to listen for this week on the Sinica Podcast:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.85; color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\">13:13:&nbsp;<\/span>Nury elaborates on the most significant inflection points in the relationship between Xinjiang and Beijing: \u201cThe ethnic tension, the political repression, has already been there. But it has gotten worse over time. Starting in the mid-\u201990s, 2001, 2009, 2016. And now what we\u2019re seeing is probably the darkest period in Uyghur history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.85; color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\">22:11:&nbsp;<\/span>Discussion of the goals of international organizations involved in documenting and researching Xinjiang and the plight of the Uyghurs, the largest being the World Uyghur Congress based in Munich, the Uyghur American Association based in Washington, D.C., and the Uyghur Human Rights Project, which Nury co-founded in 2004. Kaiser, Jeremy, and Nury discuss the ties to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the sharp rebuke these ties draw from Beijing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;; font-size: 15px; text-align: center; width: 681px; height: auto; clear: none;\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle adsbygoogle-noablate\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2096020935847107\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: auto; background-color: transparent;\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_expand\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; border-width: initial; border-style: none; height: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 681px; background-color: transparent;\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_anchor\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; display: block; border-width: initial; border-style: none; height: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 681px; background-color: transparent; overflow: hidden; opacity: 0;\"><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"171\" hspace=\"0\" id=\"aswift_2\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" name=\"aswift_2\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 681px; height: 171px;\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"681\"><\/iframe><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.85; color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\">33:19:&nbsp;<\/span>\u201cIt is mind-boggling that, to this day, since this current nightmare started about 18 months ago, no Muslim country, no Muslim leader, has criticized the Chinese government in the slightest,\u201d Nury said in response to a question raised by Jeremy about the growing trend of Islamophobia in China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.85; color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;\">40:15:&nbsp;<\/span>Nury notes that there is reason for optimism, despite the dire circumstances Uyghur residents in Xinjiang now face. \u201cI think the current political environment in China has given an opportunity for the Uyghurs\u2019 voice to be heard.\u201d He continues, \u201cThis is a critical movement in Uyghur history. This is a terrible [humanitarian] crisis as&nbsp;it has been portrayed by some U.S. lawmakers. But, at the same time, this issue has put the Uyghurs on an international map.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr style=\"box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); color: rgb(27, 28, 42); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\n<p>Source: Sinica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by Nury Turkel, a prominent voice in the overseas Uyghur community and the chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}