China lashed out angrily at Turkey yesterday after comments by the Turkish prime minister last week that its treatment of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang was “like genocide”.
The Chinese foreign ministry said it hoped “our Muslim brothers can realise the truth” while the state-run China Daily attacked the remarks by Recep Tayyip Erdogan as “irresponsible and groundless”.
Turkey has close ethnic ties with Uighurs, a mostly Muslim Turkic minority in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang. It also has a nationalist lobby that views “Eastern Turkestan” as an ancestral homeland.
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