Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World
“One spring day towards the end of the cold war, a time of surprises, my teleprinter shuddered into action. A colleague in Beijing was sending a message: members of an ethnic group called the Uygurs, of whom I had never heard, were demonstrating in the streets of Urumqi, capital of the northwestern...
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Published in | Insight (Türkey) Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 226 - 227 |
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Format | Book Review Magazine Article |
Language | English |
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Ankara
SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research
01.01.2010
SETA Foundation for Political, Economic, and Social Research SETA Vakfı |
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Summary: | “One spring day towards the end of the cold war, a time of surprises, my teleprinter shuddered into action. A colleague in Beijing was sending a message: members of an ethnic group called the Uygurs, of whom I had never heard, were demonstrating in the streets of Urumqi, capital of the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang. The protesters were denouncing the communist leadership in Beijing and chanting the name of an exiled leader said to be living in Turkey, a man named Tsai My colleague had a simple and urgent question: Could I trace Isa down?” |
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Bibliography: | SourceType-Books-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 content type line 1 ObjectType-Review-1 |
ISSN: | 1302-177X 2564-7717 1302-177X |