Commentary
Nury Turkel was a Uyghur boy once from the city of Kashgar, China. To be sure, he was no ordinary Uyghur. His father was a math teacher. Turkel worked for an American consulting company in Beijing.
But then, no Uyghur is ordinary anymore. They are all under the terrifying pall of genocide imposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Even most of those living abroad have a brother, an aunt, a mother, and friends back in China for whom they worry. Those who don’t can have a sense of loss for a place they could once have called home….