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The Grand Turk
Turkey’s Rebuke Of China’s Uyghur Policy Reveals Limits Of Cooperation
2019-03-02
Key bits from a long piece.
[Jpost] As long as the collision between China’s agenda in Xinjiang and Pan-Turkic solidarity forms an inherent limit to Sino-Ottoman Turkish cooperation, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
 will shy away from China's Belt-and-Road initiative.

Turkey’s recent stern rebuke of China’s treatment of its Turkic Moslem, Uyghur minority constitutes a stunning policy reversal by Ankara after more than three years of accommodating Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang province. The AKP government’s belated condemnation of China’s internment camps in Xinjiang was prompted by an erroneous claim of the death in detention of a revered performer of Uyghur traditional music. The timing was also motivated by the mounting pressure ahead of Turkey’s March 31 elections from growing Ottoman Turkish nationalist outrage over the Uyghurs’ plight. Ankara’s reversion to the nationalist line on Xinjiang reveals the inherent limit of Sino-Ottoman Turkish cooperation, as Ottoman Turkish nationalism’s core element of Pan-Turkic solidarity poses an enduring threat to Beijing’s vital interests in Xinjiang and its strategic ambitions across Turkic Central Asia.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  I'm sure Chinese are terribly bothered by Turkish disapproval.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-03-02 03:10  

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