{"id":18650,"date":"2020-05-24T21:38:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T12:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/fearful-uighurs-celebrate-eid-in-exile-in-turkey"},"modified":"2020-05-24T21:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T12:38:06","slug":"i-miss-my-homeland-fearful-uighurs-celebrate-eid-in-exile-in-turkey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18650","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I miss my homeland&#8217;: fearful Uighurs celebrate Eid in exile in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul has become world\u2019s largest diaspora hub for Uighurs fleeing Chinese persecution<\/p>\n<p>In Hayr\u0131 G\u00fcl\u2019s house, there was a lot to do before the Eid al-Fitr, or <em>Bayram, <\/em>holiday marking the end of Ramadan began on Saturday. There were traditional sangza noodles to bake, then twist into ropes and pile into pyramids. Special occasion clothes needed to be washed and ironed.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the Muslim holiday is a freedom G\u00fcl and her four children did not have at home in China\u2019s western Xinjiang province, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/uighurs\">Uigh<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/uighurs\">ur<\/a> homeland, where over the last few years the authorities have suffocated the ethnic minority\u2019s cultural practices and turned the entire region into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/china-detains-uighurs-for-growing-beards-or-visiting-foreign-websites-leak-reveals\">police state<\/a> subject to strict surveillance even inside their homes. Up to 1 million people have disappeared into re-education camps in what China says is a necessary measure to stamp out extremism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/24\/fearful-uighurs-celebrate-eid-in-exile-in-turkey\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul has become world\u2019s largest diaspora hub for Uighurs fleeing Chinese persecutionIn Hayr\u0131 G\u00fcl\u2019s house, there was a lot to do before the Eid al-Fitr, or Bayram, holiday marking the end of Ramadan began on Saturday. There were traditional sangza n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,447,1364,1017,67,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-islam","category-ramadan","category-turkey","category-uighurs","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18652,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18650\/revisions\/18652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}