“The police kept coming to my home and asking my father about me. Later, the police installed a voice-recording phone in my father’s and my sister’s house. When I called them, they could not speak comfortably. We could feel the pressure growing.”
Mr Emet has been reporting on China’s abuses against the Uighur people since he emigrated to Turkey 30 years ago. He is also a prominent member of the World Uighur Congress, the Munich-based organisation that has worked to bring the plight of the Uighurs to the world’s attention. The congress has repeatedly called for trade embargoes against Beijing, and boycotts of companies whose supply chains lead back to the camps.
Turkey's Erdogan, as we know, has not the slightest interest in China's persecution of the Muslim Uighurs, despite the close ethnic ties between Turkey and Xinjiang, aka East Turkestan.
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