East Turkestan independence movement

{{Distinguish|text=the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, now known as the Turkistan Islamic Party}}

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The East Turkestan independence movement is a political movement that seeks the independence of East Turkestan, a large and sparsely-populated region in northwest China, as a nation state for the Uyghur people. The region is currently administered by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Within the movement, there is widespread support for the region to be renamed, since "Xinjiang" (meaning "new territory" in Chinese) is seen by independence activists as a colonial name. "East Turkestan" is the best-known proposed name as it is the historical geographic name of the region and the name of the two independent states that briefly existed in the region in the first half of the 20th century.

Large parts of Xinjiang were under intermittent influence of the Chinese, since roughly 2,000 years ago during the Han dynasty. In 101 BC, during the Han dynasty the far eastern parts of the region was settled by the Chinese military garrisons, and outposts such as canton points were established, where each point became the initial distribution area for the Han military garrisons after entering the region.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} After the establishment of the Protectorate of the Western Regions in 60 BCE, Han settlers entered the Tarim Basin.{{Cite book |last=Zhao |first=Huasheng |url= |title=The new great game : China and South and Central Asia in the era of reform |date=2016 |publisher=Stanford University Press |others=Thomas Fingar |isbn=978-0-8047-9764-1 |location=Stanford, California |pages=171 |chapter=Central Asia in Chinese Strategic Thinking |oclc=939553543}}{{cite book|title=Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759–1864|first=James A.|last=Millward|edition=illustrated|year=1998|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-2933-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ir2CAAAQBAJ|access-date=10 March 2014|page=24}} The Tang dynasty also influenced the Western Regions until Chinese influence was lost in the 8th century, and direct control of the region would not resume until the Qing dynasty a thousand years later.

In the 18th century, Uyghurs rebelled against the ruling Dzungar Khanate. The Manchu Qing dynasty took control of the region in 1756 during the Dzungar–Qing Wars and established Xinjiang as an administrative region in 1759. Xinjiang was subsequently inherited by the Republic of China (ROC), which succeeded the Qing dynasty after the 1911 Revolution, and then by the PRC, which mostly succeeded the ROC after the Chinese Communist Revolution (1949), although Taiwan has remained under ROC rule until the present day. Throughout Qing and ROC rule, there were several periods of brief de facto independence for either the entire region of Xinjiang or parts of it, as well as foreign occupation and warlord governance. The PRC incorporation of Xinjiang occurred soon after the PRC was established in 1949, and since then, Xinjiang has remained part of China. Historically, the region had various independent states, mostly nomadic hordes, prior to the 1750s. Xinjiang has been a hotbed of ethnic and religious conflict throughout much of the period that it has been governed by successive Chinese regimes.

The Chinese government considers all support for the East Turkestan independence movement to fall under the definitions of "terrorism, extremism, and separatism" (a.k.a. the "Three Evils").{{Cite news |last=O'Rourke |first=Breffni |date=2006-04-07 |title=Turkmenistan: President Ends China Visit After Forming Front Against Uyghurs |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1067496.html |access-date=2024-05-17 |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |language=en |quote=In a declaration, Turkmen leader Niyazov and Chinese President Hu Jintao pledged their countries will work together to root out what they called the "three evils" – terrorism, separatism, and extremism. [...] But the primary target of this pledge is clear, in that the only grouping specifically named in the declaration is the "East Turkestan" separatist movement, which seeks independence for China's 19 million Muslim Uyghurs in the western Xinjiang Province.}}{{cite news |last=Hasan |first=Mehdi |date=15 September 2018 |title=Has China detained a million Uighur Muslims? |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhM6G-rRB0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228180516/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhM6G-rRB0 |archive-date=28 February 2020 |access-date=18 June 2019 |work=Al Jazeera |type=This is an interview published by the news channel Al Jazeera on the video-sharing website YouTube. The interview was conducted between the presenter of the show (named Mehdi Hasan), the chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project at the time (named Nury Turkel), and the vice president of the Center for China and Globalization at the time (named Victor Gao) |quote=I know [what] the importance of law is in China. I really hope everyone respects the law. However, in Xinjiang, the major threat we face is terrorism and extremism and separatism, and I think the authorities have the right to ensure that innocent people are not harmed and that extreme versions of religions of all kinds are not penetrating through the population, and then people cannot misuse religion as an excuse to stir up trouble, to destabilize, and to bring the society to a halt. And I think the people are justified to that.}} The East Turkestan independence movement is supported by both militant Islamic extremist groups which have been designated terrorist organizations by several countries and the United Nations, such as the Turkistan Islamic Party,{{cite web|url=http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan025885.htm|title=Governance Asia-Pacific Watch|date=April 2007|publisher=United Nations|access-date=23 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717005211/http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan025885.htm|archive-date=17 July 2007|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://3arabionline.com/?page=article&id=20680 |title=هؤلاء انغماسيو أردوغان الذين يستوردهم من الصين – عربي أونلاين |publisher=3arabionline.com |date=31 January 2017 |access-date=29 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814135647/http://3arabionline.com/?page=article&id=20680 |archive-date=14 August 2017 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0803/c90883-9250745.html|title=Turkey lists "E. Turkestan Islamic Movement" as terrorists – People's Daily Online|date=3 August 2017|publisher=En.people.cn|access-date=29 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807152808/http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0803/c90883-9250745.html|archive-date=7 August 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Martina |first1=Michael |last2=Blanchard |first2=Ben |last3=Spring |first3=Jake |editor1-last=Ruwitch |editor1-first=John |editor2-last=Macfie |editor2-first=Nick |date=20 July 2016 |title=Britain adds Chinese militant group to terror list |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-britain-security-idUSKCN1000PT |newspaper=Reuters |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814155741/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-britain-security-idUSKCN1000PT |archive-date=14 August 2017 |url-status=live }}[https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123086.htm "U.S.Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703163644/https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123086.htm |date=3 July 2019 }} (Retrieved on 29 July 2014). as well as advocacy groups and NGOs, such as the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement and the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, which is based in Washington, D.C.{{cite web |title=About the ETGE |url=https://east-turkistan.net/about-the-etge/ |website=East Turkistan Government in Exile |access-date=16 March 2021 |archive-date=16 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116025803/https://east-turkistan.net/about-the-etge/ |url-status=live }}

Proposed name

The most common name for Xinjiang used by independence advocates is "East Turkestan" (or "Uyghurstan"). There is no consensus among secessionists about whether to use "East Turkestan" or "Uyghurstan";{{Cite book|title=Community Matters in Xinjiang, 1880–1949: Towards a Historical Anthropology of the Uyghur|author=Bellér-Hann, Ildikó|publisher=Brill|year=2008|pages=35–38, 44–45|chapter=Place and People}} "East Turkestan" has the advantage of also being the name of two historical political entities in the region, while Uyghurstan appeals to modern ideas of ethnic self-determination. Uyghurstan is also a difference in emphasis in that it excludes more peoples in Xinjiang than just the Han,{{Cite journal|last=Priniotakis|first=Manolis|date=26 October 2001|title=China's Secret Separatists: Uyghuristan's Ever-Lengthening Path to Independence|url=http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chinas_secret_separatists|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415191719/http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chinas_secret_separatists|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 April 2013|journal=The American Prospect|access-date=5 February 2011}} but the "East Turkestan" movement{{Cite journal|last=Pan|first=Guang|author-link=Pan Guang|year=2006|title=East Turkestan Terrorism and the Terrorist Arc: China's Post-9/11 Anti-Terror Strategy|url=http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/May_2006/Guang.pdf|url-status=dead|journal=China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly|publisher=Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program|volume=4|pages=19–24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106141633/http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/May_2006/Guang.pdf|archive-date=6 January 2011|number=2}} is still a Uyghur phenomenon. The name "East Turkestan" is not currently used in an official sense by most sovereign states and intergovernmental organizations. Another proposed alternative is "Yarkand" or "Yarkent," which harkens back to the Yarkent Khanate, a powerful Uyghur state in the 16th and 17th centuries.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

History

{{See also|Migration to Xinjiang|Turkic settlement of the Tarim Basin|Xinjiang under Qing rule|Islam during the Qing dynasty}}

= Yaqub Beg establishment of Kashgaria =

The Kokandi Yaqub Beg invaded Kashgar during the Dungan revolt to establish an independent state after taking advantage of local rebellions.

Also, during the Dungan revolt, the Taranchi Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang initially cooperated with the Dungans (Chinese Muslims) when they rose in revolt, but turned on them, because the Dungans, mindful of their Chinese heritage, attempted to subject the entire region to their rule. The Taranchi massacred the Dungans at Kuldja and drove the rest through the Talk pass into the Ili valley.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gitcAAAAQAAJ&q=soviets+defeated+by+tungans&pg=RA5-PA35|title=Accounts and papers of the House of Commons|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|publisher=Ordered to be printed|year=1871|page=35|access-date=28 June 2010|archive-date=29 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329133722/https://books.google.com/books?id=gitcAAAAQAAJ&q=soviets+defeated+by+tungans&pg=RA5-PA35|url-status=live}}

= Within the Republic of China (1912–1949) =

The [[Second East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived Soviet-backed unrecognized republic in northern Xinjiang.|thumb|right]]

After the collapse of the Qing dynasty, the region became largely free of the control of the government of Republic of China (ROC). An early attempt at East Turkestan independence was the establishment of the short-lived "First East Turkestan Republic" (aka "Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan"), which lasted between 1933 and 1934. This republic was formed following a rebellion in Kashgar against the ROC, which had been in the process of asserting control over Kashgar after two decades of Warlordism in the ROC. The Chinese Hui Muslim 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) suppressed the First East Turkestan Republic following Chinese (ROC) victories at the Battle of Kashgar (1933) and Battle of Kashgar (1934).

During the later years of China under the ROC, which was engaged against the Chinese Communists in the context of the Chinese Civil War, the Soviet Union under leader Joseph Stalin invaded Xinjiang and assisted a local rebellion at Ili (Yining City). The rebellion led to the establishment of the Second East Turkistan Republic (1944–1949), which existed in three northern districts (Ili, Tarbaghatai, Altai) of Xinjiang with secret aid from the Soviet Union. After emerging victorious at the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the People's Liberation Army annexed Xinjiang from the ROC and the Second East Turkestan Republic.

= Within the People's Republic of China (1949–present) =

Since the Chinese economic reform from the late 1970s exacerbated uneven regional development, while Uyghurs have migrated to urbanizing Xinjiang cities, some Hans have also migrated to Xinjiang for independent economic advancement. Increased ethnic contact and labor competition coincided with Uyghur separatist terrorism from the 1990s, such as the 1997 Ürümqi bus bombings.{{sfn|Hopper|Webber|2009|pp=173–175}}

A police roundup of suspected separatists during Ramadan resulted in large demonstrations that turned violent in February 1997 in an episode known as the Ghulja Incident that led to at least 9 deaths.{{cite web |date=17 October 2001 |title=China: Human Rights Concerns in Xinjiang |url=https://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/china-bck1017.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081112153554/http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/asia/china-bck1017.htm |archive-date=12 November 2008 |access-date=4 December 2016 |work=Human Rights Watch}} The Ürümqi bus bombings of 25 February 1997, perhaps a response to the crackdown that followed the Ghulja Incident, killed 9 and injured 68. Speaking on separatist violence, Erkin Alptekin, a former East Turkestan National Congress chairman and prominent Uyghur activist, said: "We must emphasize dialog and warn our youth against the use of violence because it delegitimizes our movement".{{cite web|url=http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chinas_secret_separatists|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712184414/http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=chinas_secret_separatists|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2012|title=China's Secret Separatists|last=Priniotakis|first=Manolis|date=19 December 2001|work=The Prospect}}

== Recent events ==

Despite much talk of separatism and terrorism in Xinjiang, especially after the 9-11 attacks in the United States and the US invasion of Afghanistan, the situation in Xinjiang was quiet from around 1998 to mid-2006. In 2005, Uyghur author Nurmemet Yasin was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for inciting separatism following his publication of an allegorical short story, "The Blue Pigeon".{{cite web |last=McDonald |first=Hamish |date=12 November 2005 |title=China battles to convince terror sceptics |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/china-battles-to-convince-terror-sceptics/2005/11/11/1131578236193.html?page=3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330143209/http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/china-battles-to-convince-terror-sceptics/2005/11/11/1131578236193.html?page=3 |archive-date=30 March 2014 |work=The Age}}

Rebiya Kadeer claimed that Turkey is hampered from interfering with the Uyghurs because it recognizes that the Kurdish-Turkish conflict may receive interference from China in retaliation.{{sfn|Kadeer|2009|p=[https://archive.org/details/dragonfighterone0000kade/page/273 273]}}

Views on independence

= Arguments in favor of independence =

Several proponents of independence state that the Uyghurs have had a defined history in Xinjiang for "over 4000 years".{{cite web|url=http://www.etaa.org.au/who-are-the-uyghurs/|title=Who are the Uyghurs?|website=East Turkestan Australian Association|access-date=13 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701115720/http://www.etaa.org.au/who-are-the-uyghurs/|archive-date=1 July 2019|url-status=live}} There are historical arguments for the independence of Xinjiang, such as the argument that the People's Republic of China is a colonial occupier of Xinjiang, rather than it naturally being an integral part of the sovereign state which traditionally includes Xinjiang. Evidence for this argument usually consists of claims that the PRC is not the legitimate successor state to either the ROC (now based in Taiwan) or the previous imperial dynasty of China, which is the Qing dynasty, or that previous regimes were also illegitimate.{{cite web |date=29 September 2016 |title=East Turkestan; Brief History |url=https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/east-turkestan-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730104308/https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/east-turkestan-2/ |archive-date=30 July 2019 |access-date=13 June 2019 |website=World Uyghur Congress}}

= Arguments against independence =

The Government of China is strongly opposed to the idea of Xinjiang (East Turkestan) independence and its supporters are subject to harsh criminal penalties. China officially claims that Xinjiang has been part of China since the Han dynasty of China (220 BC – AD 206) established a Protectorate of the Western Regions in 60 BC.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sinkiang.gov.cn/axj/index.html|title=About Xinjiang|website=Sinkiang China Government Official Website|access-date=12 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603084843/http://www.sinkiang.gov.cn/axj/index.html|archive-date=3 June 2019|url-status=dead}} Historically, various Chinese governments have described invasions of Xinjiang as a sort of "reconquest" of previously lost territories ever since the Han and Tang dynasties.

Some Uyghur nationalist historians such as Turghun Almas claim that Uyghurs were distinct and independent from Chinese for 6000 years, and that all other ethnic groups are later immigrants to Xinjiang.{{sfn|Bovingdon|2010|pp=25, 30–31}} Records show that military colonies (tuntian) and commanderies (duhufu) were set up by the Han dynasty to control Xinjiang, while the Tang dynasty (618–907) also controlled much of Xinjiang until the An Lushan rebellion.{{sfn|Bovingdon|2010|pp=25–26}} Chinese historians refute Uyghur nationalist claims by pointing out the 2000-year history of Han settlement in Xinjiang, documenting the history of Mongol, Kazakh, Uzbek, Manchu, Hui, Xibo indigenes in Xinjiang, and by emphasizing the relatively late "westward migration" of the Huigu (equated with "Uyghur" by the PRC government) people from Mongolia the 9th century.{{sfn|Bovingdon|2010|pp=25, 30–31}} The name "Uyghur" was associated with a Buddhist people in the Tarim Basin in the 9th century, but completely disappeared by the 15th century, until it was revived by the Soviet Union in the 20th century.{{sfn|Bovingdon|2010|p=28}}

= Chinese government view =

The government of the People's Republic of China considers all support for the East Turkestan independence movement to fall under the definitions of "terrorism, extremism, and separatism".

In a 2014 speech, CCP general secretary Xi Jinping argued that the dissolution of the Soviet Union demonstrated that economic development alone would not prevent separatism in Xinjiang. He elaborated “In recent years, Xinjiang has grown very quickly and the standard of living has consistently risen, but even so, ethnic separatism and terrorist violence have still been on the rise. This goes to show that economic development does not automatically bring lasting order and security.”{{cite web |last1=Vassallo |first1=Christopher |title=The Soviet Origins of Xi's Xinjiang Policy |url=https://thediplomat.com/2021/06/the-soviet-origins-of-xis-xinjiang-policy/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613034259/https://thediplomat.com/2021/06/the-soviet-origins-of-xis-xinjiang-policy/ |archive-date=13 June 2021 |access-date=13 June 2021 |website=The Diplomat}}

In 2020, the Chinese government published a White Paper on Employment and Labor Rights in Xinjiang, which had been circulated via Xinhua, the Global Times and other public news channels. In this paper, the Chinese Communist Party and government maintain the view that its policies in Xinjiang are directed to realize the (constitutional) mandate to provide employment and the facilitation of employment as the most fundamental project for ensuring and improving people's wellbeing.{{Cite web |last=Alexander Kriebitz |date=September 2020 |title=Justifying Forced Labor in Xinjiang? A Review of the White Paper "Employment and Labor Rights in Xinjiang" |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344338157 |website=ResearchGate |publication-place=Technische Universität München}}

= Right to self-determination =

While the earliest ROC constitutional documents during the Beiyang era already claim Xinjiang as part of China, Chinese political leaders also acknowledged the principle of self-determination. For example, at a party conference in 1924, Kuomintang leader Sun Yat-sen issued a statement calling for the right of self-determination of all Chinese ethnic groups: "The Kuomintang can state with solemnity that it recognizes the right of self-determination of all national minorities in China and it will organize a free and united Chinese republic."Quoted from National and Minority Policies, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Report of China 277, 1951, pp148-149

In 1931, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had issued a constitution for the short-lived Chinese Soviet Republic in Jiangxi which states that Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, "may either join the Union of Chinese Soviets or secede from it."{{cite web |last=Simon Gilbert |date=23 October 2021 |title=China, the Uyghurs and the left |url=http://isj.org.uk/china-uyghurs-left/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125020853/http://isj.org.uk/china-uyghurs-left/ |archive-date=25 January 2022 |access-date=25 January 2022 |website=International Socialism}}Brandt, C., Schwartz, B. and Fairbank, John K. (ed.), A Documentary History of Chinese Communism, 1960, pp223-224

In 2022 a number of Taiwanese NGOs came out in support of Uyghur self determination.{{cite web |last1=Chia-jung |first1=Lu |last2=Hsiu-chuan |first2=Shih |date=12 November 2022 |title=Taiwanese NGOs voice support for Uyghurs' independence |url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202211120015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118161809/https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202211120015 |archive-date=18 November 2022 |access-date=18 November 2022 |website=Focus Taiwan}}

Organizations

In the 1980s and 1990s, numerous Uyghur organisations representing the Uyghur movement in exile formed around the world but were disorganised and disunited.{{citation |first=Güner |last=Özkan |editor1-first=Chris |editor1-last=Shei |editor2-first=Jie |editor2-last=Chen |title=Routledge Resources Online – Chinese Studies |contribution=The Uyghur Movement in Exile |publisher=Routledge |year=2023 |doi=10.4324/9780367565152-RECHS60-1}}{{cite book |title=The Uyghur Lobby |first=Yu-Wen |last=Chen |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-315-88542-1}} Some Uyghur organizations use more moderate methods of human rights advocacy to influence the Chinese government within the international community. Other Uyghur organizations advocate for more radical forms of ideological and armed struggle in their push for independence.{{cite journal |last1=Shichor |first1=Yitzhak |date=December 19, 2006 |title=Changing the Guard at the World Uyghur Congress |url=https://jamestown.org/program/changing-the-guard-at-the-world-uyghur-congress-3/ |url-status=live |journal=China Brief |publisher=Jamestown Foundation |volume=6 |issue=25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418221420/https://jamestown.org/program/changing-the-guard-at-the-world-uyghur-congress-3/ |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |access-date=March 26, 2021}}

= Government-in-exile =

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East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) – founded in Washington D.C. on 14 September 2004 and advocates for East Turkestani independence.{{cite news |date=29 October 2009 |title=China Protests Establishment of Uighur Government-in-Exile in Washington – 2004-09-21 |work=Voice of America |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2004-09-21-3-china-67507892/386784.html |access-date=25 December 2011 |archive-date=27 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327000729/http://www.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-a-2004-09-21-3-China-67507892.html |url-status=live }}

= Civil organizations =

East Turkistan National Awakening Movement – Located in Washington DC, United States. It was formed on 4 June 2017.

= Militant organizations =

Most militant organizations have been labeled terrorist organizations by the PRC, and some other governments as well.

Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP, also East Turkestan Islamic Movement) – Identified as a terrorist organization by the governments of China, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Turkey and, until October 2020, the United States,{{Cite news|last=Lipes|first=Joshua|date=5 November 2020|title=US Drops ETIM From Terror List, Weakening China's Pretext For Xinjiang Crackdown|work=Radio Free Asia|url=https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/etim-11052020155816.html|access-date=5 November 2020|archive-date=5 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105225141/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/etim-11052020155816.html|url-status=live}} as well as the United Nations.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050900478.html|title=China demands that Albania return ex-U.S. detainees|last=Cody|first=Edward|date=10 May 2006|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227153654/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050900478.html|archive-date=27 February 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/45388.htm|title=Country Reports|date=27 April 2004|publisher=United States Department of State|access-date=25 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002214123/https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/45388.htm|archive-date=2 October 2017|url-status=live}}

= Historical support =

Historically, organizations which have supported the East Turkestan independence movement include:

East Turkestan People's Revolutionary Party (ETPRP) – was a Uyghur communist party and was the largest armed separatist group in Xinjiang in its time. The Soviet Union was involved in funding and support to the ETPRP to start a violent uprising against China in 1968.{{sfnm|Dillon|2003|1p=57|Clarke|2011|2p=69|3a1=Nathan|3a2=Scobell|3y=2013}}
United Revolutionary Front of East Turkestan (URFET) – Was a Uyghur nationalist group in Xinjiang that participated in the Xinjiang conflict as an armed separatist force. It was believed to be backed by the Soviet Union (1970–1989) and the U.S. (1990s).
East Turkestan Liberation Organization – Was a secessionist militant Uyghur organization that advocated for an independent Uyghur state in Xinjiang. Widely believed to have links to Taliban and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.[http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3588 Eastern Turkistan Liberation Organization] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060127010402/http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=3588 |date=27 January 2006 }} MIPT Terror Knowledge Base
Committee for National Revolution – Was a Turkic nationalist Uyghur party which existed in 1932–1934. It helped found the First East Turkestan Republic.
Young Kashgar Party – Was a Turkic nationalist Uyghur party which existed from 1933 to 1934. It helped found the First East Turkestan Republic.

Opposition includes China, Iran, Palestinian Authority, Turkey among others.

== Soviet Union ==

{{Main|Ili Rebellion|Second East Turkestan Republic|Xinjiang conflict}}

The Soviet Union supported the Uyghur Second East Turkestan Republic in the Ili Rebellion against the Republic of China. According to her autobiography, Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China, Rebiya Kadeer's father served with pro-Soviet Uyghur rebels under the Second East Turkestan Republic in the Ili Rebellion (Three Province Rebellion) in 1944–1946, using Soviet assistance and aid to fight the Republic of China government under Chiang Kai-shek.{{sfn|Kadeer|2009|p=9}} Kadeer and her family were close friends with White Russian exiles living in Xinjiang and Kadeer recalled that many Uyghurs thought Russian culture was "more advanced" than that of the Uyghurs and they "respected" the Russians a lot.{{sfn|Kadeer|2009|p=13}}

Many of the Turkic peoples of the Ili region of Xinjiang had close cultural, political, and economic ties with Russia and then the Soviet Union. Many of them were educated in the Soviet Union and a community of Russian settlers lived in the region. As a result, many of the Turkic rebels fled to the Soviet Union and obtained Soviet assistance in creating the Sinkiang Turkic People's Liberation Committee (STPNLC) in 1943 to revolt against Kuomintang rule during the Ili Rebellion.{{sfn|Forbes|1986|p=173}} The pro-Soviet Uyghur who later became leader of the revolt and the Second East Turkestan Republic, Ehmetjan Qasim, was Soviet educated and described as "Stalin's man".{{sfn|Forbes|1986|p=174}}

The Soviet Union incited separatist activities in Xinjiang through propaganda, encouraging Kazakhs to flee to the Soviet Union and attacking China. China responded by reinforcing the Xinjiang-Soviet border area specifically with Han Bingtuan militia and farmers.{{sfn|Starr|2004|p=138}} The Soviet Union supported Uyghur nationalist propaganda and Uyghur separatist movements against China. The Soviet historians claimed that the Uyghur native land was Xinjiang and Uyghur nationalism was promoted by Soviet versions of history on turcology.{{sfn|Bellér-Hann|2007|p=37}} The East Turkestan People's Party received support from the Soviet Union.{{sfnp|Dillon|2003|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=1ia-2lDtGH4C&pg=PA57 57]}}{{sfnp|Clarke|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jRhHphtBg-QC&pg=PA69 69]}}{{sfnp|Nathan|Scobell|2013|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=etRkjLv8AosC&pg=PT278 278]}} During the 1970s, the Soviets supported the URFET to fight the Chinese.{{sfnp|Reed|Raschke|2010|page=37}}

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