Growing Threats to National Security due to Terrorism People believe that the TIP has ties with other terrorist organizations, including the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). This growing ...

East Turkistan is a significant source, supplying 35 per cent of the world's polysilicon and 32 per cent of the MGS. A single plant there accounted for 14 per cent of global polysilicon production ...

And U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice had "a candid exchange" about ETIM during her recent visit to Beijing.

The group seeks to establish an Islamist Uyghur separatist state called "East Turkestan" across Xinjiang, where ETIM waged a violent campaign from the late 1990s through the early 2010s.

"but many Uyghur and East Turkestan groups and individuals operate within Turkish law, making it impossible for the government to completely comply with Chinese demands." During the trip ...

The students called for democratic elections in East Turkistan, an end to the influx of Chinese settlers, the cessation of harsh birth control policies, and the preservation of Uyghur cultural ...

has continually highlighted its priority as Uyghur independence, describing a goal to “liberate the Muslims of East Turkistan from the Chinese occupation”. On Dec 6, as the Syrian rebel ...

First and foremost among those foreign fighters are the Uyghurs from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. They used to fight China as part of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement but ...