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FREEEAST TURKISTAN SYMPOSIUMhistory. And there are still many more such subjects that can be mentioned.The tragedies suffered by Turkistan are part of a long historical process.Turkistan has been the victim of large empires and it has been divided into two;Western Turkistan, which remained under the sway of the Soviets, and EastTurkistan, which became a bone to picked over by the Soviet Union and China,but remaining under the control of the Chinese government. Both before andafter Communism, China has applied a number of policies and actions againstthe people of Turkistan; there is no word but which cannot be described by anyother word than “genocide”. According to bloody documents in the archives ofthe Chinese Empire 1,200,000 Muslims were killed and 22,500 families wereforced to migrate to China due to the attacks mounted by the Manchu Dynastyagainst Turkistan between 1648 and 1759. 2When we come to the current drama of Turkistan, it can be observed that thechances to attain the freedom and independence that the Uyghur nation desiredwere not very great, due to the negative current situation and the imbalance inpower between the Uyghur Muslims and the Chinese. On the other hand, theSinicization policies, which have attempted to eradicate the presence of Turkistan,make this situation clearer.The Uyghur people have suffered persecution that no other people havesuffered. Palestinians have suffered a similar situation in their country, invaded bythe English in 1916 and handed over to the Jews to establish the State of Israel in1948. At the same time as the Israeli state was being established in 1948, Turkistanwas being invaded by the Communists. It is for this reason that some writersand researchers use the term the: “Forgotten Palestine” for Turkistan. Perhaps thesituation in Eastern Turkistan could become worse than that in Palestine, likethe “Lost Andalusia”. This is because Israel has will continue to be an artificialstate that is undergoing a continuous decline demographically, added onto anddeveloped in an environment with a geography and history that resemble oneanother. However future of Turkistan is seen to be in danger of assimilation byThe Chinese population.There are many questions that can be asked concerning the period thatfollowed two important events, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 andthe terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; there are also many answers to these310