Ankara, July 4 -- The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) vehemently denounced the Turkiye-China Media Forum that took place in Ankara.

Organised by Turkiye's Directorate of Communications on Wednesday, the forum praised Beijing and advocated for increased media and strategic collaboration while purposefully ignoring the ongoing genocide being perpetrated against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in Occupied East Turkistan. This silence is not a form of diplomacy; it is complicity, they said.

By aligning its media network with the Chinese Communist Party, which is responsible for mass internment, forced labour, systematic sterilisation, religious persecution, and the ongoing eradication of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in Occupi...