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10: Rahima Mahmut: The Uyghur Genocide

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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Do You Not Feel Very Unsupported by the Erdogan Regime?

We feel very frustrated and sad. Abdu'ahim said in 2009, the July 5th massacre, he was the only leader in the world called Chinese government committing genocide. He did. Within one month, he had to apologize. And yet it took that for the Turkish government to stand up and say something. It also shows that the Turks, you say you identify much more closely with Istanbul and Beijing, you feel more Turkish than Chinese.

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