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China, Turkey: Ankara Takes an Economic Risk by Standing Up for Chinese Uighurs

Feb 11, 2019 | 20:52 GMT

(Stratfor)

The Turkish Foreign Ministry released a statement Feb. 9, calling on Beijing to respect fundamental human rights and close its internment camps for China's Uighurs, calling them a "great shame for humanity." Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy added that "it is no longer a secret that more than 1 million Uighur Turks incurring arbitrary arrests are subjected to torture and political brainwashing in internment camps and prisons." The Chinese Embassy in Ankara responded Feb. 10, calling the Turkish allegations inaccurate and demanding that Turkey retract them....

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