The Ankara leg of the "Give a voice to East Turkestan" action carried out by Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) across Turkey was held at the Hacı Bayram-ı Veli Mosque. In the press statement made, IHH Chairman Bülent Yıldırım pointed out that all kinds of persecution and torture were applied to Muslims by China in East Turkestan and said, “There is cruelty that no one wants to see in East Turkestan. China has now gone even further. Using Covid-19 as an excuse, he soldered the doors and burned people alive. What did we do, we remained silent. We fooled ourselves with such strange excuses that none of them even saved a child who was burned alive. We will not stop, we will stand up.”
“ISLAMIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION AND THE TURKISH REPUBLIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION IS UNDER SIN”
Pointing out that Muslim states should come together for East Turkestan, Yıldırım stated that those who cannot come together have an account to be given in the hereafter, and said, “Today, we stand up all over Turkey to support the East Turkistan in order not to undertake this sin. We shout that we are on the side of the Turkestan people. I am one of the most working people on Palestine. We gave martyrs in the Mavi Marmara. Those who are sensitive about Palestine, why are you insensitive when it comes to East Turkestan? Where are those who defend the Turkish-Islamic ideal? Isn't there East Turkistan within the Turkish-Islamic ideal? Here I am calling out to the Turkic states. Meet with an emergency meeting call and take a decision on this matter as well. Is East Turkistan an enemy to you that you ignore? In a way has been occupied and massacres are being carried out now. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Organization for the Cooperation of Turkic Republics are under the sin.”
MILLIONS HAVE BEEN LOCKED TO THEIR HOMES WITH THE EXCUSE OF THE PANDEMIC
Pointing out that East Turkestan is a bleeding wound for the Islamic Ummah, President of the International Union of East Turkestan NGOs Hidayetullah Oğuzhan stated that they drew attention to the persecution carried out by China with the actions carried out in Turkey, and said, “Today, 40 million Muslim brothers of yours in East Turkestan couldn't perform Friday prayer. 20 thousand mosques were destroyed, 10 thousand mosques were closed. It is forbidden to have Islamic symbols, which is not enough, there are Chinese in every house, and this is not enough, 8 million people are in concentration camps. Apart from genocidal acts, since August, houses in East Turkestan have been locked from the outside under the pretext of a pandemic. Houses in East Turkestan were closed with welding. For this reason, martyrs were given in a fire in Urumqi. There is a genocide in East Turkestan, there is a massacre. It is tried to be destroyed. There are nearly 3 million East Turkistanis in the diaspora. We can't see our families.”