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East Turkestan or East Turkistan (Uyghur: شەرقىي تۈركىستان, ULY: Sherqiy Türkistan, UKY: Шәрқий Туркистан), also called Uyghuristan (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇرىستان, UKY: Уйғуристан), is a loosely-defined geographical region in the northwestern part of the People's Republic of China, on the cross roads of East and Central Asia. [1]
The East Turkestan independence movement is a political movement that seeks the independence of East Turkestan, a large and sparsely-populated region in northwest China, as a nation state for the Uyghur people. The region is currently administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
The Turkic Islamic Republic of East Turkestan (TIRET) was a breakaway state centered on the city of Kashgar, located in the far west of China's Xinjiang Province.It is often described as the First East Turkestan Republic to differentiate it from the Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1946) established a decade later.
The Turkestan region is noted on this 1914 map. Turkestan, [a] also spelled Turkistan, [b] is a historical region in Central Asia corresponding to the regions of Transoxiana and East Turkestan . [1] [2] The region is located in the northwest of modern day China and to the northwest of its borders, and extends directly to the east of the Caspian ...
First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934), Islamic republic centered around the city of Kashgar Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1946), Soviet-backed republic in northern Xinjiang East Turkistan Government in Exile (2004–present), exile government based in the United States
The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突, Pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), [12] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
The East Turkestan Republic (ETR) was a satellite state of the Soviet Union in northern Xinjiang (East Turkestan) that existed from 1944 to 1946. It is often described as the Second East Turkestan Republic to differentiate it from the First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934), but "second" was never a part of its official name.
The Kök Bayraq at an East Turkestan event in Washington, D.C., in 2014. The Kök Bayraq is frequently used by supporters of the East Turkestan independence movement, Uyghur nationalists, and Turkic diaspora communities to represent East Turkestan or the Uyghur people in particular.