Posted on 07/11/2015 2:17:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Uighurs from China's Xinjiang are being given Turkish identity papers in Southeast Asia by Turkish diplomats and then taken to Turkey where some are sold to fight for groups like Islamic State as "cannon fodder", a senior Chinese official said.
Beijing says the Turkic language-speaking Uighur minority are firstly Chinese nationals, and those who flee China should be returned to their home region in the far west of the country bordering central Asia.
"Turkish embassies in Southeast Asia will give them proof of identity," Tong Bishan, division chief of the Ministry of Public Security's Criminal Investigation Department, told a small group of foreign reporters in Beijing on Saturday.
"They are obviously Chinese but they will give them identities as Turkish nationals."
The accusation is likely to further anger Ankara, already alarmed by the return of more than 100 Uighurs to China from Thailand this week.
Some Turks see themselves as sharing a common cultural and religious heritage with their Uighur "brothers"(continued)
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Commies vs ISIS. Oh, not sure which side to take. May they both have glorious battle.
I don’t know which side to take LOL!
That'll be the end of IzLame in China.
JMHo
Speaking with over 400 years of experience, go with China. Trust me on this one.
The Han are complaining that the descendants of Mongols are leaving the ‘Celestial Kingdom’ to take jobs as mercenaries for Muslim factions? ? ? ?
“Nuke them all, nuke them all,
The Sunni, the Shi’a, and all” . . .
I have a tendency to believe China is letting the Uighurs go in hopes that they do not return.
Love it!!! wish we could help out LOL
So what exactly is their complaint?
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