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Uighur expatriates protest Chinese premier
9 October 2010 / TODAY’S ZAMAN WITH WIRES, ANKARA
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was the target on Friday of a protest by some 100 Uighur expatriates who gathered outside his hotel to protest China’s treatment of the Muslim Turkic-speaking population in its Xinjiang region.
The protest was staged by members of the East Turkestan Culture and Solidarity Association who arrived in Ankara from various cities, the Anatolia news agency reported. Thousands of Uighurs live in Turkey.
Reading a press statement on behalf of the association, Seyit Tümtürk said they were protesting the “disproportionate use of force, extrajudicial executions and China’s occupation,” as he referred to last year’s violent clashes between local ethnic Turkic Muslim Uighurs and the dominant Han Chinese community. Police prevented the protestors from approaching the hotel and a shoe hurled by a demonstrator towards Wen’s car missed the target.
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