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 ...
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.
Syria has stunned China by appointing Uygur militant group 'the East Turkestan Islamic Movement', to senior military ranks.
Beijing has said the TIP, which was involved in the fight against Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, is the same as the Islamist East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which is listed as a terrorist ...
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 ...
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 ...
The group, established some time in the 1990s with a previous presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has continually ...
"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 ...