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	TURKESTAN - LoveToKnow Article on TURKESTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thus it includes (I) the governor-generalship of Turkestan, embracing the provinces of Ferghana, Samarkand, Semiryechensk, and Syr-darya; the provinces of Akmolinsk and Semipalatinsk, and sometimes that of Turgai belonging to the governor-generalship of the Steppes; the Transcaspian region; and the semi-independent states of Bokhara and Khiva.
		East or Chinese Turkestan, sometimes called Kashgaria, is a region in the heart of Asia, lying between the Tian-shan ranges on the north and the Kuen-lun ranges on the south, and stretching east from the Pamirs to the desert of Gobi and the Chinese province of Kan-su (98 E.).
		The population of Dzungania is estimated at 600,000 and of Kuija at 150,000.
	52.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TU/TURKESTAN.htm (9416 words)

	East Turkestan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The territory of Xinjiang in western China is known as East Turkestan amongst portions of the Uyghur Turkic population.
		The Second East Turkestan Republic was established in 1944 and lasted until the arrival of the Chinese Communist Party People's Liberation Army in 1949.
		The East Turkestan Islamic Movement is a specific separatist organization that has been designated a terrorist group by the PRC and the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Turkestan (187 words)

	East Turkestan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		East Turkestan (Sherqiy Turkistan in Uighur, Doğu Turkistan in Turkish) was the name of two shortlived states in Central Asia, the first one existed from 1932to 1934 while the second one existed from 1944 to 1949.
		In addition, the name East Turkestan emphasizes that the area is part of a larger Turkic region.
		The " East Turkestan IslamicMovement " is a militant Islamist group which seeks to separate the region fromChina.
	www.therfcc.org /east-turkestan-11915.html (240 words)

	Footnotes to History- D to F
		East Florida- Inspired by the settler republics of Natchez and West Florida, a group of Anglo-Americans attempted to declare East Florida's independence in 1812.
		The second East Turkestan Republic was declared on November 12, 1944, and within a few weeks had driven all Kuomintang forces from the northwestern districts of Xinjiang.
		Fergana, the region of the earlier short-lived Turkestan government, was declared independent in the autumn of 1919.
	www.buckyogi.com /footnotes/natdf.htm (4714 words)

	The Desperate Situation in East Turkestan and
		The process of the Chinese colonisation of East Turkestan is a process of sinicization; its dimension surpassed the single fact of military occupation, involving all aspects of the society, such as those of politics, economy, culture, and religion.
		Even the local authorities in East Turkestan have the power to intervene religious activities that are supposed to be under the protection of the state constitution.
		East Turkestan, once venue of peace, tolerance and civilisation and a rich country, without hunger, now most Uyghurs live under the United Nation’s poverty line, and the land is centre of state sponsored violence with weekly executions of Uyghurs for demanding their rights to live in dignitary as human beings.
	www.radicalparty.org /uighur/enver_can.htm (3175 words)

	Learn About Rugs - Attributes - Style - East Turkestan \| e Rug.com Handmade Carpets & Area Rugs
		Even though the area itself is no longer called East Turkestan, the rugs of this area are still labeled as East Turkestan rugs.
		East Turkestan rugs have always been rare, and they are still being woven on a small scale.
		East Turkestan rugs tend to be long and narrow.
	www.eruggallery.com /learnrugs/learn_detail/style/style_eastturk.htm (350 words)

	East Turkestan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Uighur separatists have been fighting to re-establish an independent state of East Turkestan in Xinjiang since it became an autonomous region of China in 1955.
		The Uighur district (originally it is East Turkestan) in China is slaughtered by the Communist Party of China, and is troubled by oppression now.
		East Turkestan (Sherqiy Turkistan in Uighur, Doğu Turkistan in Turkish) was the name of two shortlived states in Central Asia, the first one existed from 1932 to 1934 while the second one existed from 1944 to 1949.
	www.wikiverse.org /east-turkestan (406 words)

	East Turkestan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		'''East Turkistan''' (or "East Turkestan") (Sherqiy Türkistan in Uyghur, Do&287;u Türkistan in Turkish) can refer to a number of different concepts.
		The First East Turkistan Republic was a short-lived government that existed from 1932-1934 in the area surrounding Kashgar.
		The Second East Turkistan Republic was established in 1944 and lasted until the arrival of the Chinese Communist Party People's Liberation Army in 1949.
	east-turkestan.area51.ipupdater.com (139 words)

	Islamic States in China
		Independentists mention a short-lived Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan established in the south in 1933, and a second Republic of Eastern Turkestan in 1944.
		All sources are according that the East Turkestan republic flag (existed 1944-1949 and not 1943-1949, but perhaps flags were used before this) was blue and current nationalist (mainly Uighur) adopted this color c.
		Yakub Beg was born in Kokand and was send to East Turkestan by Kokand Khan accompanying to burzurg Khan kodja in 1865 and with the mission of conquer the last Chinese positions.
	flagspot.net /flags/cn-islam.html (1269 words)

	Islamica Community Forums - Islam’s Invisible Frontier: The Muslims of Chinese-Occupied East Turkestan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That, indeed, is the greatest tragedy of Chinese-occupied East Turkestan, bounded to the east by China, the south by Tibet, and the west by Pakistan and the newly-independent Central Asian states, emerging from Russian domination.
		East Turkestan was at his time under Chinese rule, separated by the powers of the day from their ethnic and religious kin, and in 1949, East Turkestan suffered China’s similar switch to Communism.
		Should East Turkestan become independent, it is conceivable that it may, in the long-term, unite with, or create some form of economic bloc, with its kin countries to the west.
	www.islamicaweb.com /archive/t-12516 (2750 words)

	Muslimedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Beijing’s much-trumpeted economic project for the development of occupied East Turkestan (officially Xinjiang province), published last month, is meticulously designed to disinherit Muslims and replace them with Han Chinese and selected members of other ethnic groups, most of them Muslim, who are accepted as ‘loyal’ by the authorities.
		It is no accident that East Turkestan and Tibet are said to be the linchpins of the big plan: the two are the most restive areas of all China.
		Of all China’s restless frontier lands, East Turkestan is both the most militant and troublesome, and has suffered the greatest reppression over the years.
	www.muslimedia.com /ARCHIVES/world00/turkes-econ.htm (1017 words)

	uighur-l Communist China's Policy Of Oppression In East Turkestan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yet East Turkestan, the majority of whose population are Muslims of Uighur origin, is the scene of violence and oppression by the communist Chinese administration, the like of which is found in no other region of China.
		The Muslims of East Turkestan expect people of good conscience all over the world to help them wage a war of ideas to bring communist oppression there to an end and make a concerted effort to inform the whole world about their plight.
		China has turned East Turkestan into a closed region by restricting all means of communication, preventing the true dimensions of their human drama from being heard by the outside world.
	www.mail-archive.com /uighur-l@taklamakan.org/msg03801.html (1278 words)

	Asia Times
		On the surface, this move appears to be a small concession by the United States to reward the Chinese government for its support of the anti-terror war and for issuing new export controls on missile technology.
		However, the political implication of this decision is disastrous to the Uighur freedom movement worldwide and to the ever-deteriorating human-rights situation in East Turkestan.
		China, which has been aggressively demonizing and discrediting the East Turkestan freedom movement since September 11, now has a free hand to strike a harder blow against the Uighur population in the country's west in the name of fighting against "East Turkestan terrorist forces".
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/DI05Ad03.html (1950 words)

	Terrorism - In the Spotlight: East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
		The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is a separatist Muslim group operating in China's western Xinjiang province.
		ETIM is the most militant of the various groups in the Xinjiang region that demand separation from China and the creation of an independent state called East Turkestan.
		East Turkestan maintained a measure of independence until the early 1950s, when Mao's victorious rebel armies turned to the peripheries and began securing Chinese borders, capturing Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Tibet and East Turkestan.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/etim.cfm (1006 words)

	East Turkestan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		East Turkistan (or "East Turkestan") (Sherqiy Türkistan in (Click link for more info and facts about Uyghur) Uyghur, Doğu Türkistan in (A Turkic language spoken by the Turks) Turkish) can refer to a number of different concepts.
		The (Click link for more info and facts about First East Turkistan Republic) First East Turkistan Republic was a short-lived government that existed from 1932-1934 in the area surrounding (Click link for more info and facts about Kashgar) Kashgar.
		The Second East Turkistan Republic was established in 1944 and lasted until the arrival of the (Click link for more info and facts about Chinese Communist Party) Chinese Communist Party (Click link for more info and facts about People's Liberation Army) People's Liberation Army in 1949.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/east_turkestan.htm (144 words)

	Appeal to World Leaders
		The people of East Turkestan have been living in captivity under the harsh Chinese Communist regime since the county's invasione and occupation by the communist Chinese forces in 1949.
		The East Turkestan National Congress is dedicated to the restoration of human rights and democratic government in East Turkestan by non-violent means.
		The ETNC maintains close contacts with the people in East Turkestan and speaks on their behalf so lond as they are prevented from doing so by the Chinese authorities.
	www.uygur.org /etnc/Appeal%20to%20World%20Leaders.htm (331 words)

	Speech26August2004
		Fifty-five years ago today, a plane carrying the leadership of the Republic of East Turkestan was on its way to Beijing for talks with Mao Zedong.
		In a pattern Tibet watchers will find all too familiar, the Communists have sent wave upon wave of Han Chinese to East Turkestan to reduce the Uighur majority there (this has been so successful the Uighurs are soon to become a minority in their own land, if they aren’t already).
		Suddenly, resistance to Communism in East Turkestan was supposedly everywhere, and according to Beijing, all it was tied to and supported by Osama bin Laden.
	www.geocities.com /china_e_lobby/Speech26August2004.html (712 words)

	Rugs of East Turkestan
		The literature on East Turkestan rugs is relatively sparse.
		East Turkestan is the Chinese province of Sinkiang.
		Using accounts of British agents who opened East Turkestan up to trade and political influence as early as 1867, he tells how vegetal dyes moved in from West Turkestan and India, when synthetics began to appear and that by 1906 the art of dyeing with vegetal dyes was virtually forgotten.
	www.rugreview.com /orr/116eturk.htm (5161 words)

	COMMUNIST CHINA'S POLICY OF OPPRESSION IN EAST TURKESTAN - Harun Yahya
		The people of East Turkestan were aware of this (and of the sufferings the Russians had inflicted on the Muslims of West Turkestan) and for this reason preferred to accept the status quo rather than fall into communist hands.
		China fell to the communists, and East Turkestan with it.
		First, the leaders of the Republic of East Turkestan were killed in a mysterious plane crash on their way to a meeting with Chairman Mao.
	www.hyahya.org /e_turkestan04.php (1921 words)

	China Civil War -- Xinjiang Rebels -- Violent and Non-violent Resistance to Communist Rule [Free Republic]
		When more than forty overseas East Turkestan exiled groups got together in Ankara in 1998 to form a united East Turkestan resistance organization, it was because of this qualification that Bekin became the only candidate to lead the group.
		He is the first person to be elected Chairman of the Eastern Turkestan National Center, a self-styled embryonic form of an East Turkestan government-in-exile, and becomes the top leader of the East Turkestan exiles.
		Although the cause for independence of East Turkestan has received wide support either openly or tacitly from Turkey and other Turkic countries, Bekin's organization is seeking support outside of Muslim circles, especially from western countries.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a380248823ea5.htm (4256 words)

	Beijing enlists Arab help to fight Islamic movement in east Turkestan
		The Muslim people in east Turkestan (officially the Xinjiang province of China), who have successfully resisted Chinese attempts to assimilate them for centuries, and have in recent years organized a credible struggle for independence - deserve better than to be stabbed in the back by Muslim countries eager to "do business" with Beijing.
		China is engaged in a bloody crackdown on the Islamic movement in east Turkestan, calling the struggle for independence 'terrorism' and 'separatism'.
		For Beijing, this approval of its war on the Muslims of east Turkestan by two major Muslim countries will be of mainly symbolic importance; it is unlikely that its policies had been tempered by the fear of their disapproval.
	www.muslimedia.com /archives/world99/china-arab.htm (685 words)

	China e-Lobby: On the War on Terror, Part II: East Turkestan
		The lies the Communists spew on East Turkestan have hidden two critical aspects of the War on Terror.
		In 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s government on the mainland, they invited the leaders of East Turkestan, which at that time was still independent, to come to Beijing for talks on the country’s future.
		On September 14, 2004 (on my advice) they formed the East Turkestan Government in Exile, to give those in occupied East Turkestan a voice once again, and let the American people – indeed, the peoples of all democracies – know that there was a Muslim nation that condemned terrorism and supported freedom.
	china-e-lobby.blogspot.com /2005/09/on-war-on-terror-part-ii-east_10.html (915 words)

	Harun Yahya - The Winter Of Islam And The Spring To Come - East Turkestan
		Twenty-five million East Turkestan Muslims are still suffering under Chinese oppression, and the world closes its eyes or turns away from this cruelty.
		In order to bring an end to this persecution in East Turkestan, the world must first of all be told in no uncertain terms what is taking place there, and then international sanctions must be applied to make China feel the heat.
		It must not be forgotten that at the root of this savagery and persecution in East Turkestan lies the atheist philosophy of communist China.
	www.harunyahya.com /spring06.php (2385 words)

	The Desperate Situation in East Turkestan and
		The aim of Communist China is to prohibit the usage of the historical term "East Turkistan" which may remind the local people of the sovereignty of their region from China.
		While native-language schools are financially and morally underprivileged by the state administration in East Turkistan, the Chinese-language schools in the region receive plentiful financial aid and modern technological tools such as computers.
		As a result of this destructive policy toward the native peoples of East Turkistan in the fields of culture and education, the national culture of the region is being wiped out both systematically and openly.
	www.radicalparty.org /uighur/timur_kocaoglu.htm (1621 words)

	Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
		While America licked its wounds, and the people of East Turkestan expressed their sympathy and support for the United States to anyone who would listen, Communist China saw an opportunity to smear the entire occupied nation for its own benefit.
		Never mind that East Turkestanis have shown themselves to be the most pro-American Muslims on Earth, to the point that in cities and towns throughout the occupied nation, the most popular scarf is modeled on the Stars and Stripes (third, third, second, second, and second items).
		Last September, East Turkestan found its voice again, with the formation of the East Turkestan government in exile.
	www.publiuspundit.com /?p=1587 (1423 words)

	UIA - China Whitewashes the Historic Reality of East Turkestan
		The Uyghurs call their motherland “East Turkestan” because it is the eastern part of ancient Turkestan.
		East Turkestan was part of “Xiyu”, which was not part of historic China.
		If East Turkestan was part of China, then, the Chinese government should claim all the regions from the Middle East to South Asia as part of its territories.
	coranet.radicalparty.org /pressreview/print_right.php?func=detail&par=5839 (2147 words)

	Articles - First East Turkestan Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In November of 1933, Sabit Damolla declared the establishment of the East Turkistan Republic, with Xoja Niyaz as its president — despite the fact that the respected commander was engaged in fighting in northern Xinjiang and had actually allied his forces with those of Sheng Shicai.
		Although established as a multiethnic republic, as reflected in the choice of the "East Turkestan" name used in its founding constitution, the first coins of the new government were initially minted under the name "Republic of Uyghuristan" (Uyghurstan Jumhuriyiti).
		The extent of Islam's influence in the foundation of the ETR is disputed; while the constitution endorses sharia as the guiding law, the jadidist modernizing tradition places much greater emphases on reform and development, which is reflected in subsequent passages of the constitution that focus on health, education, and economic reforms.
	gaple.com /articles/First_East_Turkistan_Republic?... (1512 words)

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