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Eastern Turkistan after the Cold War and 9/11 A Critical Study of the Chinese Theses and Policies/ Dr Akram Hicazithe West, the famous Italian traveler Marco Polo, a contemporary of Kubilay, theson of Cenghiz Khan, visited this region. He also described East Turkistan as“Great Turkey” during his visit to the region. Thus, we can understand that theregion was perceived at this time as a Turkish country. In the same way, the regionis mentioned as “Eastern Turkistan” in the book titled Through Asia by SvenHedin, in 1898 (on pages 20, 21, 24, 255, 456).How are these lands mentioned in Chinese written documents?As is known, China is famous for recording the history of its own emperors.Moreover the “Science of Ethnology” was born in China. The characteristic ofthis science is that it is selective. It eliminates that which is different from itsown characteristics or that which is local and mentions them only when it needsto differentiate itself. 3 In this context, Chinese ethnological historians describedEastern Turkistan and its cities as “siyu” in Chinese or as “foreign lands to thewest of China”. Moreover, the name of Eastern Turkistan is not mentioned as“Xinjiang” in any historical text. We can give the following examples from bookswritten by the aforementioned historians: the History of the Shi Tang Shu orT’ang Dynasty (618-907); the History of the Han Shu or Han Dynasty (260B.C -24 AD); the History of the Hu Han Shu or 2 nd Han Dynasty (25-220); theHistory of the Jin Shu or Jin Dynasty; the History of the Vi Shu or Vi Dynasty(386-556) History, the History of the Suy Shu or Suy Dynasty (581-617); theHistory of the Sung Shu or Sung Dynasty (960-1279); the History of the YuanShi or New Yuan Dynasty (events during the rule of Mongols in China, between1205-1367); the History of the Ming Shi or Ming Dynasty (1368m-1643m).Even though all historic, cultural and scientific data, prevents any doubt, notto say outright disproves such an interpretation, the Chinese narration continuesto insist on something that cannot be described as anything other than outrightfoolish in their strange descriptions. The last of these narrations perhaps is theone that was written in a recent book called the “White Book”, by the Chinesegovernment. If we examine the descriptions regarding Eastern Turkistan in thisbook, we can find the following:“Some former colonialists called Xinjiang Eastern Turkistan to realize theobjective of separating Xinjiang from China and dominating the region… Theyfabricated the deceptive theory that works as propaganda stating that Xinjiang313