Throughout its history, the term Uyghur has had an increasingly expansive definition. Initially signifying only a small coalition of Tiele tribes in northern China, Mongolia and the Altai Mountains, it later …

Dec 23, 2025 · Uyghur, a Turkic-speaking people of inner Asia. Uyghurs live primarily in northwestern China, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where they have been subject to a government …

May 24, 2022 · China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur population and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in the north-western region of …

Two major centers of Uygur culture and literature – Turpan in the north and Kaxgar in the south – came into being. The large number of government documents, religious books and folk stories of this …

In English, the name is officially spelled Uyghur by the Xinjiang government 49 but also appears as Uighur, 50Uigur50 and Uygur (these reflect the various Cyrillic spellings Уиғур, Уигур and Уйгур).

In modern usage, "Uyghur" refers to settled Turkic urban-dwellers and farmers who follow traditional Central Asian practice, distinguished from nomadic Turkic populations in Central Asia.

Oct 3, 2025 · More than a million Muslims have been arbitrarily detained in China’s Xinjiang region. The reeducation camps are just one part of the government’s crackdown on Uyghurs. A Uyghur man …

Feb 13, 2025 · In the heart of Central Asia, the Uyghur people cultivated a rich tapestry of cultural traditions that span centuries of Islamic and Turkic influence. Their heritage, deeply rooted in both …

There is an official Uyghur district in the Almaty Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The largest number of Uyghur live in China's largest province, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where they …

Dec 23, 2025 · Belly in the dust, Guan Heng risked everything to film sites in China’s north-western region of Xinjiang. Once uploaded online his videos showed the world where Chinese authorities …