Ethnic groups in Asia

China has warned its citizens traveling in Turkey to be careful of anti-Beijing protests, in the wake of several attacks on tourists and restaurants mistaken for being Chinese in Istanbul.

The notice, posted on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on July 5, said there have recently been "multiple" demonstrations in Turkey targeting the Chinese government. 

A total of 173 people from the minority Chinese Muslim community of Uighurs have arrived in Turkey from Thailand, where they were being held after fleeing China, a Turkey-based Uighur group said on July 2. 

A Chinese restaurant in Istanbul, owned by a Turkish citizen who employed a Uighur cook, was attacked on July 1 by a group protesting China's suppression of Uighur Turks living in East Turkestan.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli have clashed over which of them has actually displayed solidarity with the Muslim Uighur minority in China's northwestern Xinjiang region.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and certain members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are proving once again they are only democrats unto themselves. Erdo?an always underlines the fact that he is the people?s choice, having been elected democratically.

Dear Holy Father,

VIENNA - Charge d'Affairs of the Serbian Embassy to Austria Goran Bradic and Defense Attache Lt. Col. Goran Jeremic laid a wreath at the Soviet War Memorial in Vienna Monday to pay tribute to 17,000 Red Army soldiers fallen to liberate the Austrian capital in World War II 70 years ago.

For weeks the Turkish opposition parties tried to resist and obstruct the security package from becoming law, but the government used the Oct. 6-7 Kobane unrest across the country to press ahead and legislated it. The president, who masterminded the package, swiftly signed the package into law. Now, has Turkey become more secure or has it become something closer to a police state?

It is unbelievable. The president of the country is speaking and sending everyone into shock. Can elements within the state plot against the state, plant bombs with the state's armored cars and murder people in cold blood?

For centuries, ideologues and politicians in the West have positioned themselves regarding Islam in a defensive way.