Nury Turkel
| Nury Turkel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 September 1970 Kashgar, Xinjiang, China |
| 🏡 Residence | Washington, D.C. |
| 🏳️ Nationality | United States |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Northwest A&F University American University |
| 💼 Occupation | Political activist |
| Known for | Former President of the Uyghur American Association Chairman of the Board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project |
Nury Turkel (Uyghur: نۇرى تۈركەل, born 1970) is an Uyghur activist and attorney from Washington, D.C.. He was born in Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan, after his graduation in 1995 he moved to the United States. He was the former president of the Uyghur American Association[1] and currently serving as the Chairman of the Board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) which is Washington, D.C. based human rights project for Uighur human rights research and documentation.[2] The UHRP has been receiving research grants from the National Endowment for Democracy since 2004. He co-founded the UHRP and served as its first Director from 2004-2006.
Early Life[edit]
Nury Turkel was born 1970 in Kashgar, he completed his primary and middle school in his homeland. In 1991 he was admitted by Northwest A&F University which is located in Shaanxi Province of China. In 1994, Turkel received his Bachelor’s degree and went to the United States for his higher education. He has a Master of Arts in International Relations and a Juris Doctorate degree from American University. He is believed to be the first Uyghur received a law degree in the United States. He is proficient in several languages, including Turkish and Chinese.[3]
Career[edit]
In May 2009, he defended a group of 17 Uyghurs who were held in Guantánamo Bay since 2002. He wrote that :The Uyghurs are not a threat to U.S. communities. Just look at the five Uyghur companions who were released from Guantánamo in 2006 and have lived peaceably and productively in Europe for three years now.[4]
In July 2009, after July 2009 Ürümqi riots, he condemned the Chinese brutal oppression of Uyghurs in Urumqi, he said that : ‘’the Uyghurs literally lost anything that they had, even their native language and their own cultural heritage that they had been proudly adhering to. The economic pressure, social pressure, political pressure made the Uyghurs feel they had been suffocated by the communist regime.’’[5] [6] [7]
On August 10, 2018, United Nations said that it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps[8]. After that, on August 22, 2018, BBC interviewed Turkel regarding the reeducation camps issue in Xinjiang, he told BBC that: "It is true that one million or more Uighurs are being held in so called internment camps in his homeland, I am afraid of mass murder because we don't know, other than a few individuals have managed to leave the camps. People are not leaving. Where have those million people gone? What are they being charged of?"[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Nury Turkel: A Turkish Primer on Engaging Beijing". www.uhrp.org. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ↑ "Attorney Nury Turkel". www.chinafile.com. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ↑ "Attorney Nury Turkel". www.chinafile.com. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ↑ "Meet the real Uyghurs". www.foreignpolicy.com. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
- ↑ "Uyghur Protests Widen as Xinjiang Unrest Flares". www.democracynow.org. Retrieved 7 July 2009.
- ↑ "Mr. Nury Turkel Lawyer, Eastern Turkestan, USA". www.a9.com.tr. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- ↑ "Nury Turkel: Why Western leaders have failed the Uighurs". www.independent.co.uk. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- ↑ "U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps". www.reuters.com. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ↑ "'Mass murder' fear for Muslim Uighurs". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
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