{"id":4685,"date":"2019-01-10T23:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4685"},"modified":"2019-01-10T23:37:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:37:54","slug":"turkey-abandons-uighurs-in-favor-of-chinese-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/10\/turkey-abandons-uighurs-in-favor-of-chinese-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"TURKEY ABANDONS UIGHURS IN FAVOR OF CHINESE INVESTMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/dogu-turkistan-696x398.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4686\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/dogu-turkistan-696x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/dogu-turkistan-696x398.jpg 696w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/dogu-turkistan-696x398-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/dogu-turkistan-696x398-560x320.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/dogu-turkistan-696x398-260x149.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/01\/dogu-turkistan-696x398-160x91.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Monitor<\/p>\n<p>By Killian Cogan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t come back home now, you\u2019ll never be able to see your homeland again.\u201d Memet Atawulla received the threatening message last May on WeChat, China\u2019s main messaging app. Though written in the Uighur language, he immediately knew it had come from the Chinese secret services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wanted me to go back,\u201d explains Atawulla, 31, as he sips a soda in one of Ankara\u2019s glitzy cafes. Originally from the oasis town of Hotan in Xinjiang, northwest China, he moved to Turkey in 2016 to pursue a master\u2019s degree on a scholarship program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I told the agents I was staying here, they said they would leave me alone if I cooperated.\u201d As with many Uighurs living abroad, the Chinese secret services asked Atawulla to become an informant for them. He refused, and is now certain traveling back home would result in his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/01\/turkey-renounces-historic-defense-of-uighurs.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Al Monitor By Killian Cogan \u201cIf you don\u2019t come back home now, you\u2019ll never be able to see your homeland again.\u201d Memet Atawulla received the threatening message last May on WeChat, China\u2019s main messaging app. Though written in the Uighur language, he immediately knew it had come from the Chinese secret services. \u201cThey wanted&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/01\/10\/turkey-abandons-uighurs-in-favor-of-chinese-investment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TURKEY ABANDONS UIGHURS IN FAVOR OF CHINESE INVESTMENT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions\/4687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}