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	East Turkestan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived government that existed from 1932-1934 in the area surrounding Kashgar.
		The Second East Turkestan Republic was established in 1944 and lasted until the arrival of the Communist Party of China People's Liberation Army in 1949.
		The Uighur East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is a specific militant separatist organization that is designated as a terrorist group by the People's Republic of China and the United States of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Turkestan (300 words)

	HUNMAGYAR.ORG - TURAN - EASTERN TURKESTAN - UYGURISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		According to official Chinese statistics 1996, the population of Eastern Turkestan is approximately 16 million, of which the Uighurs number, the indigenous people of Eastern Turkestan, are 7,2 million and the Chinese number is 6,4 million.
		Eastern Turkestan is represented in the UNPO through Eastern Turkestan National Congress which is based in Munich, Germany.
		After this invasion, Eastern Turkestan was given the name Xinjiang which means "new territory" or "New Dominion" and in 1884 it was annexed into the territory of the Manchu empire.
	www.hunmagyar.org /turan/uygur/uygur.html (1412 words)

	UNPO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The majority of the population of Eastern Turkestan had switched to the Arabic alphabet by the 18th century.
		Isa Yusuf Alptekin served in the government of the short-lived Eastern Turkestan Republic in the 1940s and fled to Turkey when the Republic was crushed in a joint operation by Mao and Stalin.
		Eastern Turkestan is represented in the UNPO through the Eastern Turkestan National Congress.
	www.unpo.org /member_profile.php?id=21 (2248 words)

	The Uighurs / History
		Uighur culture of Eastern Turkestan (the 10-14th centuries) is a continuation of two traditions: the local Buddhist tradition of Indo-European population in towns-states; and Uighur tradition of Orkhon period.
		The rulers-khojas of different oasis in Eastern Turkestan were periodically replaced till the middle of the 18th century; sometimes either taken hostage into Jungariya or returned back.
		The occupation of Eastern Turkestan by Manjur dynasty Qin which ruled in China was possible because the policy and military strategy of the Qins combined revealing weaknesses of their rival, using the weaknesses, dividing a rival and destroying it part by part.
	members.tripod.com /the_uighurs/hist.htm (3727 words)

	Walking to Eastern Turkestan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A group of Eastern Turkestani carpets being shown in Los Angeles by Khalil Zahiri were purchased in the areas of Yarkand and Khotan by two Pathans from Kabul who now reside in Pakistan.
		The carpets woven in Eastern Turkestan have been known in the West as Samarkand and in the Orient as Kansu because those towns were the western and eastern depots on the trade routes, becoming the places from which the carpets were marketed.
		Bidder, Hans, Carpets from Eastern Turkestan, 1964, reprinted 1979, Washington Int'l Assn., Accokeek, Maryland 10607, U.S.A., p.
	www.rugreview.com /145estur.htm (786 words)

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		The rule of the Muslim part of Eastern Turkestan passed into the hands of Khizir Khoja, who staged an invasion of the Buddhist Uighur Kingdom in the north in 1397 and brought them under his rule.
		In the early eighth century, a princess from the Eastern Turk royal family married the emperor of Tibet and was responsible for the invitation to Tibet of many Buddhist monks from Khotan in southern East Turkistan.
		One branch of the Qarluqs, the Qarakhanids, established a kingdom in eastern Kyrghyzstan and the Kashgar region of southwestern East Turkistan in the mid-ninth century.
	www.angelfire.com /vt/OkarResearch/uighur.html (3315 words)

	Uighuristan (Islamic Republic of East Turkestan) [China] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		The Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan was proclaimed on 12 December 1933 in Aksou (South Xin-Jiang) ans suppressed in February 1934 with Soviet help.
		The Second Republic of Eastern Turkestan (People's Republic of Eastern Turkestan) was proclaimed on 11 November 1943 in Koudja by grouping the provinces of Altai, Ili and Tarbagtai (Northern Xin-Jiang).
	flagspot.net /flags/cn-islam.html (734 words)

	(TURKESTAN) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		What is happening in Eastern Turkestan and Tibet is one I could somewhat identify with, as I've witnessed the same sort of colonization taking place on a mini- scale in regions of New York City.
		Eastern Turkistan is the homeland of Uyghurs, a Turkic people who have been living there since the beginning of time.
		Eastern Turkistan lies in the heart of Asia, it borders Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan on the West; Pakistan and India on the Southwest; Tibet on the South; Russia and Mongolia on the North and China on the East.
	www.tallarmeniantale.com /Turkestan.htm (3318 words)

	Turkestan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turkestan (Persian: ترکستان; also spelled Turkistan or Türkistan in Turkish, which literally means "Land of the Turks" in Persian) is a region in Central Asia, which today is largely inhabited by Turkic people.
		It is subdivided into West (Russian) and East Turkestan (called Xinjiang by the PRC, administered as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, titled "Uyghuristan" by Uyghur separatists), with the Tian Shan and Pamir ranges forming a rough division between the two.
		Eastern Turkestan, often called Chinese Turkestan, is home to the oldest settled Turkic people in the region, the Uyghurs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkestan (660 words)

	Pravda.RU:Bin Laden left his traces in China
		The Uigurs are the Turkic nation living on the territory of China in the region that is historically called Eastern Turkestan.
		Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang) borders on the republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
		Eastern Turkestan is rich with the natural resources, making up 80% of China's reserves.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/02/13/26381_.html (743 words)

	PAPER 79 - ANDITE EXPANSION IN THE ORIENT
		Here at this eastern focus of the human race the Sangik peoples differentiated from the Andonic stock, and Asia was their first home, their first hunting ground, their first battlefield.
		Eastern Turkestan (Sinkiang) and, to a lesser extent, Tibet were the ancient gateways through which these peoples of Mesopotamia penetrated the mountains to the northern lands of the yellow men.
		Thus, while they dispersed over the Eastern Hemisphere, the Andites were dispossessed of their homelands in Mesopotamia and Turkestan, for it was this extensive southward movement of Andonites that diluted the Andites in central Asia nearly to the vanishing point.
	www.urantia.org /papers/paper79.html (5464 words)

	Footnotes to History- D to F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The confusion was magnified when the President of East Turkestan fled to the USSR for protection and signed a treaty dissolving the republic.
		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)

	Nuclear War in Eastern Turkestan
		In 1959 on the densely populated territory of the ancient cultural center of Eastern Turkestan's Lop
		In Eastern Turkestan, four nuclear reactors are operational.
		Turkestan as it has shown to the French nuclear testing in French Polynesia.
	www.turkiye.net /sota/lopnor.html (1031 words)

	Eastern Turkestan Carpets & Rugs. Khotan, Kashgar and Yarkand rugs.
		The stylistic elements that help to identify rugs from eastern Turkestan are the relatively small number of decorative motifs, the somewhat elementary geometric language (both abstract and stylized), and the decidedly livery colors, based primarily on red, blue, and yellow in all their tonalities.
		Situated between western Turkestan and Mongolia, eastern Turkestan is today for the most part situated within the Chinese region of Xinjiang.
		Somewhat widespread in eastern Turkestan is the saph, or "multiple-niche", layout, which probably represents an encounter between the local pre-Islamic iconographic tradition and the true Islamic tradition, since no single-niche prayer rugs have been found from this area.
	www.bukhara-carpets.com /carpets/about_chinese.html (972 words)

	Chinese Nuclear Test in Eastern Turkistan
		The peoples of Eastern Turkestan strongly condemn the Chinese Nuclear test conducted at Lop Nor, Eastern Turkestan, mostly known in the West as Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, on August 17, 1995.
		However, China's nucler tests in Eastern Turkestan for almost four decades have produced an ecological disaster, not only endan- gering human life but also polluting drinking water, food supplies and affecting millions of animals throughout the country.
		Although there are no official figures of the nuclear victims, it has been reported by Eastern Turkestanis living in various parts of the country that almost 210,000 people in Eastern Turkestan died because of the radio-active fallouts.
	www.turkiye.net /sota/nuclear.html (281 words)

	The Uighurs / Script
		Eastern Turkestan has been drawing attention of researchers of the world for a couple of centuries.
		Creators of the Ancient Uighur manuscripts in Eastern Turkestan in one manuscript write, that they translated certain text from the certain language into Turkic, and in others the same translators write, that they translated the text into the Turkic Uighur language.
		It is interesting that nowadays in Eastern Turkestan local Uighur craftsmen produce paper by the same way, as their ancestors long time ago.
	the_uighurs.tripod.com /Scrpt.htm (2015 words)

	Evidences of Creation.com
		Eastern Turkestan is for many probably a little-known country.
		The genocide in Eastern Turkestan, a country that remains within the territories of China, soars.
		The only difference about Eastern Turkestan is, being a region where communication to the rest of the world is entirely blocked, it is highly difficult to obtain any information.
	www.evidencesofcreation.com /solution_10.htm (7193 words)

	Allied Committee: Common Voice Vol. 1 1988 Is Eastern Turkestan a Chinese Territory?
		In order to justify their domination of Eastern Turkestan, the Chinese have always claimed that this country was annexed to China two thousand years ago, that the Chinese dwelled in this territory and therefore, Eastern Turkestan is an indivisible part of China.
		In the last revolt of 1863, the people of Eastern Turkestan were successful in expelling the Manchus from their motherland, and founded an independent state under the leadership of Yakub Beg Badavlat.
		This means, Eastern Turkestan was conquered during the rule of the Manchus.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/turkestan01.html (1722 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Turkestan
		The chief river of Chinese Turkestan is the Tarim or Tali- mu-ho, about 1250 miles in length, resulting from the junction of the rivers or darias, watering Yarkand, Khotan etc.; finally the Tarim empties its waters into the Lob-Nor, now more of a marsh but a lake in ancient times.
		The trade of Turkestan amounts to about 320 millions and a half of rubles, of which 140 millions and a half are exportation and 180 millions are importation.
		Tashkent, the chief city of the Syr Daria Province, is also the centre of the administration of Russian Turkestan with a population of 191,500 inhabitants, of which 150,622 are natives, for the most part (140,000) Sarts.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15095a.htm (908 words)

	The Desperate Situation in East Turkestan and
		In fact, the autonomy of Eastern Turkestan is designed to the advantage of the Chinese government, and heavy Chinese military and paramilitary forces deployed in this country maintain this unjust autonomy.
		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.
		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)

	East Turkestan. Net - Harun Yahya
		East Turkestan, known as the Kuwait of the twenty-first century, is of particular interest for its oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, gold and silver mines, and is one of China's most important sources of these resources.
		One Turkestan resident interviewed by Winchester (who refused to give his real name) said that since he worked in a state office he was never able to go to the mosque, and that he would be sacked if he were to be seen doing so.
		Those party members firmly believe in religion and who refuse to change their ways after education should be given a certain period to make corrections, be persuaded to withdraw from the party or dismissed from the party according to the seriousness of their case.
	www.eastturkestan.net /china03.html (5163 words)

	barcelona.indymedia.org - webcast news
		Chinese persistence in administering Eastern Turkestan with a combination of oppression, exploitation, discrimination and indifference has created a potentially explosive atmosphere among the country's native population.
		At present, the Uighurs of Eastern Turkestan are forced to choose between national extinction through gradual assimilation and a mortal struggle to defend their cultural identity.
		The peoples of Eastern Turkestan have been deeply disappointed by the continued indifference of the United Nations to the boiling problems in their country.
	barcelona.indymedia.org /front.php3?article_id=10489 (631 words)

	uighur-l China's "War on Terror": September 11 and Uighur Separatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Washington, D.C.-based Eastern Turkestan National Freedom Center, for instance, lobbies members of Congress on behalf of the Uighur cause and publishes books and tapes on pan- Turkic nationalism for circulation inside Xinjiang.
		Meanwhile, the leader of the Europe-based Eastern Turkestan Union, Erkin Alptekin, prefers to organize conferences and work with Tibetan emigre groups seeking autonomy for their own homeland.
		Other groups, such as the East Turkestan Opposition Party, the Revolutionary Front of Eastern Turkestan, the Organization for Turkestan Freedom, and the Organization for the Liberation of Uighurstan, have links to small guerrilla cells based in the oasis towns of Xinjiang's Taklimakan Desert.
	www.mail-archive.com /uighur-l@taklamakan.org/msg03176.html (2031 words)

	uighur-l The Oppression in Eastern Turkestan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The practices of Russia, where the Red Army mentality still dominates, in Chechnya, and of China in Eastern Turkestan, are the most important indications of this.
		Between 1949 and 1952, 2,800,000; between 1952 and 1957, 3,509,000; between 1958 and 1960, 6,700,000; between 1961 and 1965, 13,300,000 people were either killed by the Chinese Army or died as a result of the shortages brought about by the regime.
		The example of Eastern Turkestan is just one of the sufferings in the 20th century.
	www.mail-archive.com /uighur-l@taklamakan.org/msg03453.html (878 words)

	US & Terrorism in Xinjiang
		Incomplete statistics showed that from 1990 to 2001, the East Turkestan terrorist forces inside and outside Chinese territory were responsible for over 200 terrorist incidents in Xinjiang, resulting in the deaths of 162 people of all ethnic groups, including grass-roots officials and religious personnel, and injuries to more than 440 people.
		The Eastern Turkestan Islamic Party (Sharki Turkistan Islam Partiyesi), based in the cities of Kashgar and Hoten, is supported mainly by religious fundamentalist elements, conservative forces and some farmers.
		The Eastern Turkestan Liberation Front (Sharki Turkistan Azatlik Fronti) reportedly has a presence in the cities of Turfan and Kumul and is supported by unemployed Uighur youth, farmers and intellectuals.
	www.saag.org /papers5/paper499.html (2839 words)

	Article by JD
		Born in Eastern Turkestan, Alptekin served in the government of the short-lived Eastern Turkestan Republic in the 1940s and fled to Turkey when the Republic was crushed in a joint operation by Mao and Stalin.
		Current attitudes among the Uighurs can be gauged from the fact that their main expatriate organization, the Istanbul-based Eastern Turkestan National Center, is headed not by a monk but by an ex-General in the Turkish army, Korean War veteran Reza Bekin.
		This is not idle boasting; the three bomb explosions of February 1997 in Urumqi, Eastern Turkestan's capital, was only the best-reported of a large number of violent incidents in the region-- including, most recently, a well-equipped attack on a Chinese missile base.
	www.olimu.com /Journalism/Texts/Commentary/Uighur.htm (1046 words)

	Andite Expansion in the Orient - TruthBook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was on a southern peninsula of this continent that Andon and Fonta were born; in the highlands of what is now Afghanistan, their descendant Badonan founded a primitive center of culture that persisted for over one-half million years.
		This group was later weakened by absorbing the greater portion of the extinct eastern green peoples as well as large numbers of the orange race, was slightly improved through limited admixture with the blue man, but suffered exceedingly through assimilation of large numbers of the indigo race.
		With the completion of the conquest of eastern Asia the ancient military state gradually disintegrated—past wars were forgotten.
	www.truthbook.com /1811.cfm (5439 words)

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