East Turkistan Government in Exile شەرقىي تۈركىستان سۈرگۈندى ھۆكۈمىتى

The East Turkistan Government in Exile congratulates the Kyrgyz Republic🇰🇬 on its election to the United Nations Security Council, a historic milestone for Central Asia. We look forward to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic raising the critical issues facing Central Asian nations, including occupied East Turkistan.

Nur, 58, leads a diaspora political body formed by Uyghur independence advocates who seek self-determination for the region China administers as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. He was elected to the role in November 2023 at a gathering of the Uyghur diaspora in Washington, D.C. He leads from Edmonton.

"Our ultimate goal is independence of East Turkistan," he said. "Because without independence we cannot guarantee our living, we cannot guarantee our basic human rights."

Edmonton School Bus Driver Serves as Prime Minister of East Turkistan Government in Exile | Culture Alberta Abdulahat Nur has driven school buses in north Edmonton for more than two decades. He is also the elected Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, leading a diaspora political body seeking independence for a region China administers as Xinjiang.

📢📜 Commemorating the 512th Anniversary of the Yarkent Khanate (1514–1705)

The East Turkistan Government in Exile solemnly commemorates the 512th anniversary of the founding of the Yarkent Khanate by Sultan Said Khan in late May 1514.

For nearly two centuries, the Yarkent Khanate stood as a sovereign Turkic state governing the overwhelming majority of East Turkistan. From its political capital in Yarkent, the Khanate administered a flourishing civilization whose major cultural, economic, and intellectual centers included Kashgar, Khotan, Keriya, Aksu, Kucha, Turpan, Qarasheher, Qumul, Dukhan, and Uzgen. These historic cities formed a vibrant network of trade, scholarship, governance, and Islamic civilization along the Silk Road.

The eastern frontier of the Khanate extended to the historic Jiayu Pass (Jiayuguan), long recognized as the traditional boundary separating East Turkistan from China, underscoring the Yarkent Khanate’s geopolitical independence and distinct civilizational identity.

The Yarkent Khanate represented one chapter in East Turkistan’s more than 3,000-year history of statehood and its ancient civilization stretching back thousands of years. Throughout history, East Turkistan has been home to numerous sovereign Indo-European and Turkic civilizations and states, including the Tocharian city-states, the Xiongnu (Hun) Empire, the Kushan Empire, the Hephthalites, the Kök Türk Khaganate, the Uyghur Khaganate, the Kara-Khanid Khanate, the Idiqut Uyghur State, the Chagatai Khanates, and the Yarkent Khanate.

In the modern era, this enduring tradition of sovereignty continued through the State of Yette Sheher (1864–1877), the First East Turkistan Republic (1933–1934), and the Second East Turkistan Republic (1944–1949). Together, these states reflected the enduring aspirations of the East Turkistani people for independence, national dignity, and self-rule.
Like every nation throughout history, East Turkistan’s sovereignty has periodically been disrupted by foreign occupation and colonial domination, including rule by the Dzungar Khanate (1705–1759), the Manchu Qing Empire (1759–1863; 1877–1912), Chinese warlords (1912–1933), KMT-aligned Chinese warlords (1934–1943), and the Chinese Communist occupation (1949–present).

Despite these occupations, the political will of the East Turkistani people to reclaim their national sovereignty and independence has never been extinguished. That struggle continues today through the work of the East Turkistan Government in Exile and the collective efforts of East Turkistanis worldwide.

The Yarkent Khanate maintained diplomatic, cultural, and commercial relations with neighboring powers, including the Mughal Empire, Ming China, the Kazakh Khanate, and the Khanate of Bukhara, affirming its recognized place within the regional and international order of its time.

On this solemn anniversary, the East Turkistan Government in Exile honors the enduring legacy of the Yarkent Khanate as a pillar of our national history and identity. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the restoration of East Turkistan’s independence and national sovereignty in accordance with international law, historical continuity, and the inalienable right of all peoples to self-determination.

The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) called on Government of Pakistan to reverse its position, condemn China's genocidal policies in occupied East Turkistan, and end all forms of political, intelligence, and security cooperation linked to East Turkistan.

ETGE slams Pakistan for backing China's Xinjiang policy in joint statement The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) has strongly criticised Pakistan and China over their recent joint statement issued on May 26, 2026, accusing Islamabad of backing Beijing's policies in Xinjiang, which the organisation refers to as East Turkistan.

📰ETGE Calls for Support for East Turkistan’s Independence to End China’s Nuclear Threat and Ongoing Genocide

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) today called on the United States and other free nations to support East Turkistan’s independence, after new satellite imagery first reported by Reuters showed that the People’s Republic of China has built more than 80 launch pads, hardened bunkers, and command-and-control nodes near the Qumul (“Hami”) intercontinental ballistic missile silo fields in occupied East Turkistan.

China conducted 45 nuclear tests at the Lop Nur site in East Turkistan between 1964 and 1996, with a more recent underground test reportedly carried out in secret in 2020. It has built one of its three new intercontinental ballistic missile silo fields there, at Qumul, as part of a buildup the U.S. Department of War projects will give China 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030.

The ETGE said the buildup places a nuclear arsenal aimed at the free world on the same ground where China is carrying out a campaign of genocide against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples, and that restoring East Turkistan’s independence is the only way to end the genocide and remove the threat.

The campaign of genocide began in May 2014, when Beijing launched what it called a “People’s War on Terror.” On May 23, 2026, it entered its thirteenth year. Over more than a decade, it has grown into the systematic destruction of the Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan.

Documented crimes include mass internment, enslavement through forced labor, forced sterilization, the separation of more than one million children from their families, the destruction of thousands of mosques and cultural sites, and the mass killing of Uyghurs for their organs.

The ETGE has long warned that the international human rights system has failed to stop these crimes. The United States determined in 2021 that China is committing genocide. Parliaments across the free world have condemned the crimes. A 2022 United Nations report found that the actions may amount to crimes against humanity. Yet no mechanism has halted the atrocities or addressed their root cause: China’s colonial occupation of East Turkistan.

The ETGE says Beijing has used this inaction to try to make its colonial occupation permanent and, as the new imagery shows, to turn an occupied country into a strategic base for its nuclear forces.

“Beijing stages its nuclear arsenal aimed at the United States and its allies in the territory of its ongoing genocide,” said Salih Hudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the ETGE and President of the East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM). “A restored, free, and independent East Turkistan would neutralize China’s nuclear threat.”

The ETGE noted that China’s nuclear test site, ICBM silos, and the newly identified launch and command infrastructure are all located in occupied East Turkistan.

“Supporting East Turkistan’s independence is not only a moral duty but a strategic necessity,” said Dr. Mamtimin Ala, President of the ETGE. “The world’s security and our people’s survival are one and the same struggle.”

The ETGE urged the United States and other free nations to formally recognize East Turkistan as an illegally occupied country; to support its petition for decolonization and the application of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and to support East Turkistan’s legal complaint demanding accountability for genocide and crimes against humanity through the International Criminal Court - ICC.

The ETGE further called on the international community to empower the people of East Turkistan to restore their freedom and independence, secure their survival, and resist Chinese aggression that threatens international peace and security.

ETGE: 'Support East Turkistan to Counter China's Nuclear Threat' The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) urges free nations to back East Turkistan's independence to counter China's nuclear threat and ongoing genocide.

Şərqi Türküstan Sürgündə Hökuməti olaraq, qardaş Azərbaycan xalqını 28 May – Müstəqillik Günü münasibətilə ürəkdən təbrik edirik.

Sizin müstaqilliyiniz abadi olsun!

Uyğur və digər Türk xalqları Şərqi Türküstanda Çin müstəmləkə işğalı və soyqırımı ilə üzləşməkdə davam edərkən, Türk dünyasının milli müstəqillik, kimlik və ləyaqətin qorunması istiqamətində ortaq məsuliyyət daşıdığını bir daha vurğulayırıq.

Bu tarixi gündə Azərbaycanı və bütün Türk dövlətlərini Şərqi Türküstanın milli istiqlaliyyətinin bərpası uğrunda ədalətli mövqedə dayanmağa çağırırıq.

شەرقىي تۈركىستان سۈرگۈندى ھۆكۈمىتى باش مىنىستىرى ئابدۇلئەھەد نۇر ئەپەندى يېقىندا «ئەدمونتون ژۇرنىلى» (Edmonton Journal) نىڭ زىيارىتىنى قوبۇل قىلغاندا، نېمە ئۈچۈن شەرقىي تۈركىستاننىڭ مۇستەقىللىقى خەلقىمىز ئۈچۈن بىردىنبىر چىقىش يولى ئىكەنلىكىنى چۈشەندۈرۈپ مۇنداق دېدى: «چۈنكى مۇستەقىللىق بولمىسا، بىز ياشاش كاپالىتىمىزگە ئېرىشەلمەيمىز، ئاساسىي كىشىلىك ھوقۇقلىرىمىزغا كاپالەتلىك قىلالمايمىز.»

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Prime Minister Abdulahat Nur of the East Turkistan Government- in-Exile recently spoke with the Edmonton Journal on why East Turkistan's independence is the only way forward for our people, "because without independence we cannot guarantee our living, we cannot guarantee our basic human rights."

East Turkistan's prime minister in exile a north Edmonton school bus driver Abdulahat Nur isn't just an Edmonton school bus driver and dad; he's also the prime minister in exile of East Turkistan.

DTSH, Türkiye dahil tüm hükümetleri Doğu Türkistan'ı işgal altındaki bir ülke olarak tanımaya, dekolonizasyon dilekçesini desteklemeye ve Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi önünde hesap verebilirlik sürecini başlatmaya çağırdı. Yalnızca Doğu Türkistan'ın bağımsızlığının Uygur ve diğer Türk halklarının varlığını güvence altına alabileceği vurgulandı.

Uygurlar, Çin'in Soykırımı 13. Yılına Girerken Doğu Türkistan Bağımsızlığına Destek Talep Ediyor Doğu Türkistan Sürgün Hükümeti, Türkiye dahil tüm dünya hükümetlerini Doğu Türkistan'ın bağımsızlığını desteklemeye çağırdı.

The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) urged the people of Pakistan to reject their government’s endorsement of China’s “genocide and colonial occupation” of East Turkistan and support the region’s “swift liberation and independence”.

Exiled East Turkistan authorities slam Pakistan for endorsing China’s atrocities in Xinjiang Washington, May 27 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) accused Pakistan of repeatedly endorsing Beijing’s “genocide” and “colonial occupation” of East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.

🕋ETGE President's Eid al-Adha Message: Pray and Act for East Turkistan

The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) extends its warmest wishes to all Muslims around the world on the blessed occasion of Eid al-Adha. May this sacred festival be a time of spiritual renewal, unity, and divine mercy for you and your families.

As we enter the blessed days of Eid following Arafah, we reflect on the eternal values of sacrifice, submission to God, and the struggle for justice. These are not merely symbolic; they are active responsibilities that call upon us to stand firmly in defense of truth and the oppressed.

Today we remind the Muslim world that while most can gather and celebrate Eid in peace, the Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic Muslim peoples of Occupied East Turkistan continue to suffer under seventy-six years of Chinese colonial occupation. That occupation has hardened into a genocide which has now entered its thirteenth year and has not stopped.

Millions remain imprisoned or enslaved through forced labor. Families are torn apart and Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim children remained interned in state-run indoctrination boarding facilities to be raised as atheists. More than 16,000 mosques have been destroyed and damaged and the very practice of Islam by Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims has been criminalized. This is one of the gravest crises of our time, and it is being inflicted upon Muslims.

We therefore appeal to our brothers and sisters in faith to raise your hands in prayer this Eid for the swift liberation of East Turkistan and the deliverance of its people from Chinese colonial occupation and genocide. But we remind you that prayer alone is not enough. Faith without action is incomplete.

We call on the governments of the Muslim world, on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and on every Islamic institution and organization to end their shameful silence and complicity. To those who trade with and shield the Chinese regime carrying out this genocide: your silence is a betrayal of the very faith you profess. Recognize East Turkistan as an occupied country. Condemn China’s genocide and colonial occupation. Cease all cooperation that enables it. Support our petition before the United Nations Committee on Decolonization and our complaint before the International Criminal Court.

To the East Turkistani people, in our occupied homeland and in exile, we say: do not despair, and do not forget who you are. We are not Chinese; we are East Turkistanis. Our identity is not theirs to define, and our homeland is not theirs to own. The struggle for faith, freedom, and national liberation continues.

The restoration of East Turkistan’s independence is the only guarantee of our people’s survival and fundamental human rights. This Eid, let our prayers be matched by our deeds.

May Allah (SWT) accept all of our sacrifices, forgive our shortcomings, and strengthen our resolve. May He hasten the end of our oppression, revive our nation, and grant us victory in this noble cause.

— Dr. Mamtimin Ala, President, East Turkistan Government-in-Exile

https://east-turkistan.net/eid-al-adha-message-from-the-president-of-the-east-turkistan-government-in-exile/