“Turkey should stop interfering with the internal affairs of China. This is a warning,” said a note left on Monday on the Web site by unidentified hackers, the Cihan news agency reported on Tuesday. The Web site's Turkish and English versions were both accessible and working on Tuesday. “The Xinjiang issue belongs to China's internal affairs and is not open to interference by others. China has the power to resolve this issue. We hope that the Turkish Embassy in China will hear our voice,” a Chinese hacker, nick-named “Maffia Baron,” said in a separate note.
Earlier, a Turkish hacker group known as the “Ay Yıldız Team” attacked many Chinese-based Web sites to protest the killings in the Xinjiang region. Turkish nationalists see Xinjiang as the easternmost frontier of Turkic ethnicity. Thousands of Uighurs live in Turkey.
On Tuesday afternoon, there were difficulties in accessing the official Web site of the Turkish Foreign Ministry as well. However, officials at the Foreign Ministry ruled out any hacker attack on their Web site, saying the difficulties stemmed from heavy traffic and a high number of clicks.
