Turkey never particularly cared for the rest of Turkic people. All of the Pan-Turkism talks has never been more than a scheme to get cheap labor and/or new military recruits. And modern Turkey is a shadow of Ottoman Empire without much political weight to it, Erdogan's mouth will be firmly shut.
I see this a lot living in Asia. It FEELS like (just my feeling, pure psuedo-science) old stuff isn't as valued as it is in Western Cultures. Like, I was just in Bhutan last week, and many of their temples were built in the last few decades. In Thailand, building that are older than a few years even are referred to as old. Occasionally they'll proudly show something that's centuries old, but I can never tell if they actually care, or if they're just selling what westerners want.
And can you imagine what China's foreign atrocities would look like given the lack of care for even their own people? China directly funds genocidal and ethic cleansing campaigns against their own citizens right now. A superpower authoritarian China will be frightening.
I wonder if committing acts of genocide affects their social credit score?
And nothing is going to change anytime soon. The country that can make the difference is more concerned with power struggles between their billion princes and whatever or not women should be allowed to drive.
Complaining about it most certainly will. Incidentally, my neighbour rents out a room in his flat, and his most recent housemate is a Chinese lady. She's a nice person who goes out of her way to occasionally drop in with gifts of food and so forth. Anyway, last time I spoke to her she was telling me about how good the social credit system is and how it gets her free films and books to download, and she showed me the app on her phone. The terrifiying thing to me is that the system is already working, and I suspect will be totally normal to people in a little while.
For fuck's sake..you know exactly what they meant and still posted this bullshit anyway.
No, but these days Muslim is pretty much a cultural identity that will work against you no matter your ethnicity, unless you were lucky to born white and can change your name to John Snow or whatever.
Turk here, I'm not currently living in Turkey but sadly, I've not heard of extensive coverage of what's happening. There doesn't seem to be general awareness or outrage... There's very little communication on a societal level between the Uyghurs and Turkey in general, I feel.
Justification. A pathetic one at that.
There are plenty of Islamaphobes in Europe as well. That's the main reason the extreme right has managed to do so well in elections in the past 5 years or so.
Or your usual politicians ignoring or belittling significant portion of the voter base and those people are now voting accordingly?
Yes, I'm sure that's why white men are voting for white supremacists. Clearly.
A lot of Asia isn't new. Ever been to Hong Kong? It must be the physical fores of sandwiched buildings holding things together.
It's the fact that they are a world hegemon that allows them to get away with these things
That, and historically the UN sucks at dealing with things that are mostly contained within a single country. It'd be a violation of national sovereignty in some opinions. See: Rwanda
It's a very deliberate ethnic cleansing effort by the Chinese government.
This.
