Turkistan

In another significant archaeological effort, researchers conducted excavations in the historical and cultural zone of Kyzylkol in the Turkistan Region.

Thousands of pilgrims from across Kazakhstan and neighboring countries flock to the Khoja Ahmed Yasawi Mausoleum in Turkistan to pay their respects to Yasawi and other eminent figures interred there.

Volunteers from the Youth Resource center of the Turkistan Region sorting humanitarian aid to flood victims.

Historically, the Hui have been staunch supporters of the Chinese state, and even played a critical role in the dismantling of the first East Turkistan Republic in 1933 and the second in 1944.

Against a backdrop of intensifying human rights abuses in their regions, players and fans of the East Turkistan and West Papua “national” sides will have an opportunity to put on the shirts and fly the flags of their homelands at a football match.

It was initially Hazrat Syed Sharaf-ud-Din Abdul Rahman (RA), a Sufi from Turkistan also known as Syed Bulbul Shah (RA) who provided the idea of Islam in Kashmir.

The last mention of the northern Xiongnu was their defeat by the Chinese in 151 at the lake of Barkol, Barkol after which they fled to the western steppe at Kangju (centered on the city of Turkistan in Kazakhstan ).