Washington DC, April 14 -- The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) expressed its support for the motion regarding East Turkistan introduced by Dutch MP Stephan Van Baarle on April 9 in the Netherlands' House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer), according to an ETGE release.

He urged the Dutch government to refer to the region currently labeled by China as "Xinjiang" by its rightful name: East Turkistan, the ETGE release noted.

The motion correctly designates "Xinjiang" as a colonial term imposed by Beijing to undermine the true national identity of the Uyghur and other Turkic communities. It acknowledges that the majority of the native population rejects this designation. This represents a significant and necessary move to challenge...