Washington DC, April 24 -- The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) criticised the so-called "comprehensive strategic partnership" established between Azerbaijan and the oppressive regime of the People's Republic of China.

As stated in the ETGE release, this action represents a serious betrayal of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples enduring hardship under Chinese dominance in East Turkistan, as well as a betrayal of the Turkic values promoted by Azerbaijan's late President Abulfaz Elchibey, who promised never to side with Beijing against his Turkic kin.

At a moment when millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples are being imprisoned, enslaved, tortured, raped, and sterilised in concentration camps across East T...