Uyghur people

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has met in Astana with Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakhytzhan Sagintayev.

The two officials said their countries wish to develop and deepen their relations.

Kazakhstan will reconsider Serbia's request for export of 5,000 domestically-made cars to the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said this after a meeting with the country's Prime Minister Karim Massimov.

Turkey has launched a probe on an attack on Korean tourists, who were mistaken for being Chinese, in Istanbul, as China rules out claims of discrimination against its Uighur minorities. 

The relations between China and Turkey have been strained over Turkish media reports suggesting that Uighurs are currently banned from worship and fasting during the Muslim month of Ramadan.

China warned its citizens travelling in Turkey to be careful of anti-Beijing protests, warning them that some Chinese tourists have recently been "attacked and disturbed". 

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

A family of suspected Uighur Muslims, among hundreds detained in Thailand since last year, will Friday learn their fate in a court case that has sparked a diplomatic wrangle between Turkey and China.
     
Both countries are seeking the repatriation of the family, who use the surname Teklimakan and claim they are Turkish.
      

The violence took place just two days before the sentencing of prominent Muslim Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti, who was on trial on charges of separatism

A prominent academic from China's mostly-Muslim Uighur minority was jailed for life Sept. 23 for "separatism"

Leading Turkish civil society organizations have voiced their concerns over the violation of fundamental human rights in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, pledging to take the issue to international organizations and observers.

It’s not really “China’s Chechnya” yet, but the insurgency in Xinjiang is growing fast. Incidents of anti-Chinese violence are getting bigger and much more frequent.

Almost 100 people were killed during attacks on a police station and government offices in China’s far western region of Xinjiang early last week, state media said Aug. 3, giving fresh details on one of the worst incidents of unrest in years.