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Turkey has spoken out against Cambodia’s deportation of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum seekers who had fled violence in China, while stating that it expects Chinese authorities to treat the deported Uighurs fairly and in line with international human rights norms.
The asylum seekers had escaped China in recent months following the July clashes between Uighurs and ethnic Han in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, which, according to government figures, claimed more than 150 lives.
In a written statement released on Thursday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed concern over the fact that the deportation order for the Uighurs, including a woman and two children, came before they had learned the results of asylum applications they had conveyed through the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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