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2 unusual facts about East Turkestan


East Turkestan

After the Fall of the Ming Dynasty, a western Mongol group established a polity in "Chinese Tartary" as it was sometimes known, or in eastern Xinjiang, expanding southward into southern Xinjiang.

Kebek Sultan

Kebek Sultan Oghlan (died c. 1472) was Khan of eastern Moghulistan (Uyghurstan) from 1468 or 1469 until his death.



see also

ETIM

East Turkestan independence movement, advocates of an independent, self-governing East Turkestan

World Uyghur Congress

The World Uyghur Congress describes itself as a nonviolent and peaceful movement that opposes what it considers to be the Chinese occupation of East Turkestan, and it advocated for a rejection of totalitarianism, religious intolerance and terrorism as an instrument of policy.