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Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Uyghur Mother Touches Down in AmericaNury A. Turkel is a Uyghur-American lawyer and human-rights activist. Jay did a “Q&A” with him in 2018—when the world was first learning about the mass persecution of the Uyghurs. In 2022, Mr. Turkel published a book: “No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs.” Last week, he had the best Thanksgiving ever: his mother, whom he hadn’t seen in 20 years, was released from China in a swap between Beijing and Washington. She has now met four of her grandchildren for the first time. With Jay, Nury Turkel talks about his family and the Uyghur people more br...2024-12-0447 minQ & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerA Uyghur Mother Touches Down in AmericaNury A. Turkel is a Uyghur-American lawyer and human-rights activist. Jay did a “Q&A” with him in 2018—when the world was first learning about the mass persecution of the Uyghurs. In 2022, Mr. Turkel published a book: “No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs.” Last week, he had the best Thanksgiving ever: his mother, whom he hadn’t seen in 20 years, was released from China in a swap between Beijing and Washington. She has now met four of her grandchildren for the first time. With Jay, Nury Turkel talks about his family and the Uyghur people more br...2024-12-0447 min
Hudson Institute Events PodcastAt the Edge of Empire: A Discussion with Edward WongJournalist Edward Wong’s new memoir At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning explores the intersection of family, identity, and the rise of China as a global power in the current geopolitical landscape.The book covers the Wong family’s journey from rural China to urban America amid shifting United States–China relations and Wong’s experiences as a New York Times correspondent in Beijing. The family witnessed the transformation of China into an authoritarian regime and global empire—including the plight of the Uyghurs, as Wong’s father moved from Hong Kong to Xinjiang in the early year...2024-11-041h 00
Crossing Faiths124: Nury TurkelIn this interview, John Pinna speaks with Nury Turkel, a former commissioner of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), about his life experiences and work in promoting religious freedom globally. Turkel discusses his background as a Uyghur born in a re-education camp in China, his journey to the United States, and his advocacy for religious minorities. He explains the importance of the USCIRF's annual report, detailing how it designates countries of particular concern and special watch list countries based on religious freedom violations. Turkel emphasizes the significance of religious freedom as a fundamental human right and...2024-07-0153 min
The Pivot by Globely NewsChina's War on the Uyghur MuslimsUyghur activist Nury Turkel (@nuryturkel) speaks with host Arif Rafiq on China’s persecution of the Uyghur Muslims; the systems of coercion, surveillance, and collective punishment directed at the Uyghurs; and how you, the listener, may be unknowingly consuming products made in part through forced Uyghur labor.
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The Russell Moore ShowTech Surveillance and Genocide with Nury TurkelWorld news is hard to watch. It’s full of horror and tragedy, much of which is happening thousands and thousands of miles away. While these stories are difficult to consume, they can be easy to ignore as we imagine ourselves untouched by their devastation. But on this episode of The Russell Moore Show, human rights attorney Nury Turkel encourages Christians to understand the ways that they are, in fact, affected by issues like foreign policy and human rights violations across the ocean.Turkel, whose new memoir is titled No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genoci...2023-11-0843 minHudson Institute Events Podcasthttps://www.hudson.org/events/how-beijing-uses-economic-power-enforce-its-rules-worldwideThe Chinese government has developed a set of remarkably innovative economic tools to shape the behavior of individuals, companies, and governments and bring them in line with Beijing’s core interests. To counter China’s authoritarian power projection, democratic governments need to band together to establish guardrails on international economic behavior.Join Hudson Senior Fellow Nury Turkel and Axios China Reporter Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian as they discuss her new book Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World.
2023-09-211h 00Hudson Institute Events PodcastDefending Democracy: A Conversation with Taiwan Legislative Yuan President You Si-kunAs Chinese Communist aggression threatens the stability of the Indo-Pacific, Taiwan stands as a beacon of democracy, prosperity, and human rights in the region, and as a contributing member of the community of democracies.Legislative Yuan President You Si-kun was first elected to the Taiwan Provincial Assembly in 1981, and he has been a long-standing proponent of a free, democratic Taiwan. Please join Hudson Senior Fellow Nury Turkel for a conversation with President You, moderated by Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, on how to defend Taiwan's hard-won democracy and uphold a free and open Indo-Pacific. Program:...2023-05-231h 13
Hold These Truths with Dan CrenshawA Survivor’s Story of Life Inside China’s Uyghur Labor Camps | Nury TurkelNury Turkel is a Uyghur American attorney and human rights advocate who was born over 50 years ago inside a Maoist labor camp in China’s Xinjiang province. Life for the average Chinese citizen has improved dramatically since then, but not for the ethnic Uyghurs. Nury joined Rep. Crenshaw to describe the wide-scale human rights abuses being committed by the CCP in Xinjiang: slavery, forced marriages, compulsory tracking, censorship, re-education camps, and the erasure of Uyghur culture and religious beliefs. Underlying Nury’s story is a clear example of how Marxist ideology inevitably crushes the human spirit and compels people to c...2023-05-1736 min
Welt.Macht.ChinaZwangsarbeit in China: Helfen neue Lieferkettengesetze?China wird seit Jahren vorgeworfen, im Landesteil Xinjiang uigurische Zwangsarbeiter:innen zu beschäftigen. Die chinesische Staats- und Parteiführung bestreitet das. Deutsche Firmen sollen jetzt dafür sorgen, dass ihre Zulieferfirmen auf der ganzen Welt Menschenrechte und Umweltstandards einhalten – also auch in China. Dafür ist seit Anfang des Jahres das sogenannte Lieferkettengesetz in Kraft.
In der neue Folge des ARD-Podcasts "Welt.Macht.China" klärt Moderatorin Joyce Lee zusammen mit Astrid Freyeisen vom BR, was das Lieferkettengesetz für deutsche Firmen in China bedeutet. Die ARD-Korrespondentin Eva Lamby-Schmitt erzählt von ihren schwierigen Recherchen...2023-04-2536 min
The Christian Outlook | Full InterviewsThe True Story Of China’S Genocide Of The Uyghurs: Don Kroah With Nury TurkelDon Kroah talks to Nury Turkel, author of “No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2023-01-2732 min
Live a Larger Life14. Idolatry, Intelligent Homes, Vaping, Hot-girl Walks, & Living LargeHosts James FitzGerald, Carl Hardwick, Kandace Hudspeth, and Georgia Smith take on popular culture this week, including idolatry in the form of the Liver King, the rise of technology in the wellness space, vaping, and, as ever, living large.
00:26 Welcome and introduction to the episode
10:10 Kandace Hudspeth’s radar on smart homes and the continued boom of the wellness market
27:45 Carl Hardwick’s radar on Tik Tok’s Liver King
52:30 Georgia Smith’s radar on vaping and it’s popularity with young people
1:22:22 James FitzGerald’s All American Award and Un-Ameri...2023-01-031h 47
Foreign PodicyLet the Uyghurs GoThe Uyghurs are a Turkic Muslim people who live in a Central Asian land usually called Xinjiang. They have been – and are being – brutally oppressed by China’s Communist rulers. There can be no debate about that.
Nury Turkel was born in a detention center in Xinjiang. As a young adult, he made his way to America, where he became the first Uyghur to earn a law degree at an American university.
Today, he is a prominent human rights attorney, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and he serves as chairman of USCIRF – the U.S. Com...2022-12-191h 03Foreign PodicyLet the Uyghurs GoThe Uyghurs are a Turkic Muslim people who live in a Central Asian land usually called Xinjiang. They have been – and are being – brutally oppressed by China’s Communist rulers. There can be no debate about that.
Nury Turkel was born in a detention center in Xinjiang. As a young adult, he made his way to America, where he became the first Uyghur to earn a law degree at an American university.
Today, he is a prominent human rights attorney, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and he serves as chairman of USCIRF – the U.S. Com...2022-12-191h 03
USCIRF Spotlight PodcastBreaking Down the State Department’s IRF DesignationsPursuant to the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, the U.S. Department of State designates Countries of Particular Concern, places countries on its Special Watch List, and designates Entities of Particular Concern. As part of this mandate, USCIRF makes recommendations to the administration, including the State Department, regarding which countries and entities deserve designation on these three lists based on systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.On today’s 100th episode of the USCIRF Spotlight Podcast, USCIRF Chair Nury Turkel joins us to discuss the State Department’s most recent designations and asse...2022-12-1616 min
Horns of a DilemmaChina's Campaign Against the Uyghur PeopleIn this week's epsidode of Horns of a Dilemma, Sheena Greitens, head of the Asia Policy Program at the University of Texas, Austin, joins author Nury Turkel to discuss Turkel's book, No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs. Turkel, who was born in a re-education camp during China's culturual revolution, uses his own experiences, as well as interviews with survivors of the camps in western China to tell the story of China's campaign against the Uyghur people. The picture that emerges in his conversation with Greitens is urgent, powerful, and chilling. This event was recorded a...2022-12-0237 min
Middle East File018 | No Escape | Nury Turkel | IRF Summit Authors’ CornerNury Turkel is the author of No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs (Hanover Square Press, 2022) and is interviewed by Jeremy P. Barker, Director, Middle East, Religious Freedom Institute.
Nury Turkel is an attorney, author, foreign policy expert, and advocate with nearly two decades of experience working in the intersection of law, business, government, and the human rights community. He specializes in corporate governance and regulatory compliance, national security, foreign policy, digital authoritarianism, and forced labor and supply chain risk issues. He is currently serving as Chair of the US Commission on Int...2022-10-3026 min
The Jordan Harbinger Show730: Nury Turkel | A Witness to China's Uyghur GenocideNury Turkel (@nuryturkel) is a human rights attorney for the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and the author of No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs.
What We Discuss with Nury Turkel:
How the Chinese Communist Party is using artificial intelligence to arbitrarily round up Uyghurs for fabricated crimes — including 17,000 who were arrested within 10 days thanks to assistance from an algorithm.
Some of the 48 behaviors that will get Uyghurs flagged as dissidents in Xinjiang and sent to concentration camps for "re-education" are as mundane as growing a beard or adhering to a...2022-09-271h 45
The Strait Up PodcastThe United Nations and the UyghursThe United Nations released a human rights report on August 31 confirming credible evidence of torture and other human rights abuses by China against the Uyghurs. Natalie Tso speaks with prominent Uyghur American activist
Nury Turkel about the UN report, the two acts he helped pass in the US Congress on behalf of the Uyghurs, and what nations can do to help end China's genocide of the Uyghurs.2022-09-2200 min
Taiwan MonitorNury Turkel: Chinas Vorgehen gegen die Uiguren geht uns alle anNury Turkel ist US-amerikanischer Staatsbürger uigurischer Abstammung. Er wurde in einem Umerziehungslager in Xinjiang geboren und verbrachte dort mit seiner Mutter seine ersten Lebensmonate. Später ging er zum Studium in die USA. Jetzt ist er Anwalt und seit Juni 2022 der Vorsitzende der US-Kommission für Internationale Religionsfreiheit. Er war kürzlich zur Teilnahme am Regionalen Forum für Religionsfreiheit in Taiwan. Vergangene Woche in Taiwan Monitor berichteten wir über sein Buch "No Escape" - "Kein Entkommen" und warum für Nury Turkel das Vorgehen der chinesischen Regierung gegen die uigurische Bevökerung in Xinjiang eindeutig Völkermord ist. Heut...2022-09-1900 min
The Strait Up PodcastRedefining genocide: Uyghur concentration campsThe UN just confirmed torture and other human rights abuses at Uyghur concentration camps in an official human rights report. Prominent Uyghur activist Nury Turkel shares how China is redefining genocide in its treatment of the Uyghurs.2022-09-1500 min
Taiwan MonitorDie Situation der Uiguren in XinjiangNury Turkel hat kürzlich ein Buch mit dem Titel "No Escape" (Kein Entkommen) über die Unterdrückung der uigurischen Bevölkerung in Xinjiang in China veröffentlicht. Nury Turkel ist US-amerikanischer Staatsbürger uigurischer Abstammung. Er wurde während der Kulturrevolution in China in einem Umerziehungslager geboren und verbrachte dort seine ersten Lebensmonate. 1995 ging er als Student in die USA und erhielt später dort Asyl.
Nury Turkel ist Anwalt und seit Juni 2022 der Vorsitzende der US-Kommission für Internationale Religionsfreiheit. Nury Turkel besuchte kürzlich Taiwan und nahm am Regionalen Forum für Religionsfreiheit in Taipei teil...2022-09-1200 min
타이완 현황ㆍ국제관계유엔의 신장인권보고유엔의 신장인권보고
– 2022.09.05.-타이완.한반도.양안관계
최근 8월말에 유엔 인권 최고위원 자리에서 임기 만료로 이임한 미첼 바첼레트(Michelle Bachelet)는 자리를 떠나기 앞서 40쪽이 넘는 보고서를 마지막 순간에 대외 공개했다. 그건 신장(新疆)지역에서 심각한 인권 침해 사건들이 있었다는 걸 명확히 지적한 내용이 담긴 보고서였다. 그런데 왜 이임을 하기 직전에서야 꺼내들었을까? 한동안 신장 위구르족에 대한 베이징의 강압적 통치가 있었다는 설이 뜨겁게 보도될 때에는 이 보고서가 보이지 않았었는데 말이다. 그런 연유로 미첼 바첼레트는 유엔에 몸담은 4년 간의 정치 생애에는 베이징의 입김에 침묵했던 것이란 비판을 받게 되었다.
국제상에서 타이완이나 홍콩, 티베트나 위구르에 대한 토론이 많아지며 깊은 관심을 보일 때가 있다. 특히 ‘인권’을 핵심으로 여길 경우 중국의 인권과 종교 탄압의 심각성은 이미 주지하고 있지만 유엔 인권위원회에서는 그리 명확하거나 강력하게 반영되지 않은 것 같다.
미첼 바첼레트는 두 차례 칠레 대통령에 당선된 국가 원수였고, 첫 번째 여성 대통령이었으며, 또한 정치범 출신이기도 한데, 재야에 있을 때나 대통령 임기 때 칠레에서 여러 인권정책을 적극 추진하였다. 이 가운데 칠레 인권의 이정표를 찍은 업적은 대통령 첫 임기 때의 바첼레트는 독재자 아우구스토 피노체트(Augusto Pinochet)의 인권 침해 행위를 기록한 것이다. 칠레 산티아고에 설립한 ‘기억과 인권 박물관(Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos)’이다.
미첼 바첼레트 자신과 일가족 모두 아우구스토 피노체트가 16년간 칠레를 통치할 때 핍박을 받았던 수많은 칠레 국민 중의 한 명이었다. 미첼 바첼레트의 아버지는 공군 장군 출신으로 피노체트가 발동한 쿠데타에 반대하여 체포 감금되었고 끝내 옥중에서 사망하였는데, 그녀도 23세에 피노체트 정권 하의 정치범으로 수감되었던 바 있다.
칠레에서 민주화 시대가 열리면서 미첼 바첼레트는 해외 망명생활을 접고 귀국해 정계에 입문했고 좌익 사회당 당내 고위층까지 역임하다가 2005년에 칠레의 첫 여성 대통령으로 당선되었다. 임기 내에 이행기정의, 국내 인프라 개선, 빈곤 계층이 수혜자가 될 수 있는 기본 노후연금정책을 펼쳤다. 2010년 성평등 및 여성 권한을 위한 국제 기구 유엔 여성기구(U.N. Women)가 성립될 때 그녀는 초대 수장 직무인 전무이사로 추대되었고 그 해에 재임한 대통령 직무에 복귀했다. 이렇게 핍박 받는 환경에서도 꺾이지 않고 인권을 확보하기 위해 큰 힘을 쏟아붰던 인물임에도 불구하고 4년 간 담당했던 유엔 인권 최고위원 임기 내에 베이징에 굴복했다는 비판을 받으며 암담한 마지막 임기를 마쳤다는 게 미첼 바셀레트에게는 아쉬운 그림자가 될 것 같다.
중국의 국력이 강해지면서 유엔에 끼치는 영향력도 커졌는데, 중국의 입김이 강력해진 기간은 마침 미첼 바첼레트가 유엔에 있을 때이며, 포르투갈 총리를 역임했던 안토니오 구테헤스(Antonio Guterres)가 유엔 사무총장으로 있을 때였다고 한다. 다시 말해 안토니오 구테헤스와 미첼 바첼레트는 당시 베이징 앞에서 신장 인권 의제에 대해 침묵을 선택했다는 것이다. 이는 현재 일본 간사이 외국어대학교의 평화,충돌 연구센터에서 교수를 맡고 있는 마크 코간(Mark S. Cogan)이 외교 전문잡지 더 디플로맷(The Diplomat)에 기고한 문장에서 지적한 대목이다. 마크 코간 교수는 ‘신장 인권 의제는 바첼레트가 유엔에 남겨놓은 정치 유산’이라고 비유했다.
유엔 인권위원회에서 베이징의 영향력이 커진 것에 대해서 미국의 책임도 짚어봐야한다. 도널드 트럼프 대통령 시대에 미국 우선주의를 기반으로 정책을 추진하면서 국제기구에 대해 소홀했고 더욱이 여러 기구에서 미국이 탈퇴하였는데, 이중 유엔 인권이사회(UNHRC)도 포함되어 있다. 미국이 인권이사회를 스스로 3년간 결석하는 동안 중국은 그 틈을 타고 인권이사회에서의 영향력을 크게 확장했다.
베이징당국은 신장에 대한 강압적 통치가 2017년 이후 점점 심각해져왔는데 위구르족 시민들이 집단 불법 구류되며 학대를 받거나 강제 노동을 하고 있으며, 위구르 여성은 강제 불임수술을 받도록 하는 등의 만행을 저질렀다는 증거가 하나 둘씩 폭로되면서 국제상에서는 신장 인권 의제에 더 많은 관심을 갖는 계기가 되었다.
그때 유엔 인권이사회는 각 성원국을 상대로 보편적 인권상황 심의를 진행하고 있는데 중국 인권상황을 심의하는 기간 신장 지역을 포함한 중국 인권 이슈가 광범위하게 인용 보고된 것이 신장 인권 이슈를 국제상에 폭로시킨 주요 경로라는 것이다.
미첼 바첼레트는 유엔 인권최고위원으로 부임한 초기인 2018년에 유엔 인권이사회 대회에서 중국의 인권기록은 계속해서 악화되고 있고 위구르족에 대해서 임의적으로 구류 감금하는 상황은 사람들로 하여금 몹시 불안하게 한다며 신장 인권 이슈를 가지로 베이징당국과의 접촉을 강화해 나갈 결심을 보여줬었다.
안타깝지만 4년 임기 초기의 미첼 바첼레트는 중국 인권 이슈에 강한 의지를 보였으나 이어진 4년 기간 그 결심이 점차 수글어들면서 중국인권 이슈에 대해 바첼레트는 대부분 침묵을 지켰다. 더 안타까운 것은 당시 인권문제를 놓고 전문가들이 제시한 건의를 홀대한 사실이 여러 가지 있는데 이중에 신장문제를 보고할 특별 협조원 임명 또는 유엔 인권이사회에 전문가 분과위원회 임명 등 인사권에서 당시 미첼 바첼레트 유엔 최고인권위원과 유엔사무총장 안토니오 구테헤스 모두 이를 무시했었다.
올해 5월 미첼 바첼레트가 신장을 방문했다. 신장에 가서 제대로 인권 상황을 조사했는지에 대해서 국제사회에서는 의구심을 드러냈던 바 있는데, 실질적으로 바첼레트 대표의 5월달 신장 방문은 베이징당국의 정치 선전물로 쓰이고 말았다. 그래서 인권을 옹호하는 미첼 바첼레트는 이 때문에 그녀의 명예에 손상을 입었고, 유엔 인권최고위원회의 전문성에도 피해를 입혔다는 지적을 받았다.
지난 8월31일 미첼 바첼레트는 유엔 인권최고위원회 대표 자리에서 물러났다. 이임 바로 몇 분 전에서야 1년이나 묵혀뒀던 신장인권보고를 공개했다. 하지만 이제 그녀는 임기를 마쳤고 직접 처리할 수 없는 과제를 차기 대표에게 물려주게 되었다.
신장인권상황은 어떠한지, 어떻게 대처할 것인지 이제라도 수습은 해야될 것이다. 마침 지난 8월30일과 31일 이틀간의 일정으로 ‘2022 지역 종교자유포럼’이 타이완민주재단과 타이완주재 미국대표부(AIT), 중화민국 외교부의 공동 주최로 ‘인도 태평양 지역 시민 사회 대화: 종교자유가 직면한 도전’이란 주제로 타이베이에서 열렸다. 타이완은 2020년에 ‘국제종교자유연맹’ 옵서버로 초청되었고, 미국 국무부 국제종교자유위원회를 통해 지속적으로 기부하며 전세계 종교 박해를 받는 사람들이 압박에 대항하도록 돕고 있다.
이번 행사에 참석한 위구르계 미국인 인권 변호사이며 국제종교자유위원회 위원장 누리 투르켈(Nury A. Turkel)은 타이베이시간 9월1일 인터뷰에서 유엔 인권최고위원회 대표가 이임하기 직전 8월31일에 신장인권보고를 발표한 건 너무 늦지 않았느냐는 질문에, 그는 신장 인권 보고가 더 일찍 나왔더라면 수많은 소중한 생명을 잃지 않았고 더 많은 사람들을 구할 수 있었을 것이라며, 비록 늦었어도 공개된 것에 대해서는 긍정하는 태도였다. 그러면서 국제사회가 함께 중국이 신장 위구르족에게 저지른 만행을 규탄하고 저지해야 하며, 노동력을 착취해 만든 제품이 수출되어도 불매운동, 보이콧을 하는 것은 사실 위구르인들을 도울 수 있는 방법이 될 수 있다고 말했다.
누리 투르켈은 직설적으로 타이완인들을 환기시키는 말을 했다. 그는 티베트, 신장, 홍콩의 선례를 들어 타이완은 반드시 깨어있는 맑은 정신을 유지하고2022-09-0500 min
Taiwan InsiderUyghur Rights and the UNThe UN just released a human rights report confirming credible evidence of torture and other human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Tune into Taiwan Insider as Natalie Tso speaks wtih Uyghur activist and the chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom Nury Turkel about what he thinks the international community should do next.2022-09-0100 min
Frontlines of Freedom™🎧"We Only Have One Life To Live"Whilst In the second trimester of her pregnancy, a woman is detained and kept in a soviet style gulag. Her husband is sent to a brutal labor camp. She gives birth to a son in captivity whose first encounter with life is imprisonment for the ‘crime’ of being born a Uyghur - like his father. Nury Turkel grows up with a deep sense of seeking freedom and justice for his people and that becomes a compass whose direction he could not ignore. Listening to Nury one can't help but be drawn by his resolve and determination to stop running and...2022-08-0137 min
HARDtalkNury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?2022-07-1823 minHARDtalkNury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?2022-07-1823 minHARDtalkNury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?2022-07-1823 minHARDtalkNury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?2022-07-1823 min
The InterviewNury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?Stephen Sackur speaks to Nury Turkel, a prominent Uyghur activist in exile and chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is a key leader in the effort to pressure China to end the repression of the Uyghurs. But is his campaign doomed to fail?(Photo: Nury Turkel in the Hardtalk studio)2022-07-0822 min
The Untold Story with Martha MacCallumEscaping China's Surveillance RegimeOn this episode, Martha is joined by the Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Nury Turkel, to discuss the imprisonment of Uyghur Muslims within China. Nury explains the technology that the Chinese government uses to monitor the Uyghurs, the reality of life inside a Chinese "re-education camp", and how countries around the globe continue to turn a blind eye to China. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2022-07-0733 min
Intelligence SquaredEscaping Xinjiang, with Nury TurkelIn recent years China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur ethnic group in the northwestern region of Xinjiang province. Nury Turkel was born in a re-education camp in Kashgar, Xinjiang in 1970. In 1995 he had the opportunity to leave China as a student and was never to return to his home and family. Nury has since dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of Uyghurs – he is Chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specialising in national security and foreign policy. His ne...2022-06-2938 min
National Security This WeekHuman Rights in China with Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Nury Turkel (6/22/22)This week, Jon Olson talks with U.S.-educated Uyghur-American lawyer, foreign policy expert, and noted human rights advocate Nury Turkel about Chinese human rights violations and related topics.2022-06-221h 01
Politics + Media 101Genocide in Xinjiang: Nury TurkelNury Turkel, a Uyghur-American lawyer, foreign policy expert, and human rights advocate, talks about China's treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang Province.Find more (including how to join us live) at PM101.live or on Twitter at @PoliticsNMedia.Subscribe, rate, and review if you like what you hear.Join our e-mail list for "best of" delivered directly to your inbox, twice per month, at PM101.live2022-05-2034 min
NPR's Book of the DayUnderstanding China's brutal treatment of Uyghur Muslims through two nonfiction booksIt's estimated that more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims have been detained in camps in China, where they may be subjected to forced labor, sexual violence, torture, and religious restrictions. Today, we explore two nonfiction books that help understand the crisis. First, Geoffrey Cain speaks to Scott Tong on Here and Now about his book The Perfect Police State, an overview of the surveillance technology China is employing to monitor Uyghurs. Then, Nury Turkel speaks to Ayesha Roscoe on Weekend Edition Sunday about his book No Escape, an investigation into these torture camps and the life of Uyghur refugees....2022-05-2019 min
Pod Bless CanadaTalkin’ in the Free World: Nury Turkel on the Uyghur GenocideNury Turkel, author of No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs, speaks to us today about China’s use of technology in the Uyghur genocide and the threat of such technologies to global democracy and freedom. Turkel highlights what the international community needs to do to support the Uyghur people and hold authoritarians to account.
Turkel is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and is Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is the first U.S.-educated Uyghur-American lawyer, foreign policy expert, and human rights advocate. He was born...2022-05-1849 min
Talkin' in the Free WorldNury Turkel on the Uyghur GenocideNury Turkel, author of No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs, speaks to us today about China’s use of technology in the Uyghur genocide and the threat of such technologies to global democracy and freedom. Turkel highlights what the international community needs to do to support the Uyghur people and hold authoritarians to account.Turkel is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and is Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is the first U.S.-educated Uyghur-American lawyer, foreign policy expert, and human rights advo...2022-05-1749 min
Middle East File001 | USCIRF Annual Report 2022 | Nadine MaenzaOn the first episode of the Middle East File, Nadine Maenza, the outgoing Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom joins to discuss the newly released USCIRF Annual Report 2022.
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Great Power PodcastThe Uyghur GenocideIn this episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host Michael Sobolik interviews Nury Turkel about the Chinese Communist Party's genocide in Xinjiang, the nature of the atrocities, and what it means for the United States.
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Nury Turkel is the first U.S.-educated Uyghur-American lawyer, foreign policy expert, and human rights advocate. He is the recent author of No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs. He was born in a re-education camp at the height of China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution and spent the first several months of his life in...2022-05-1150 min
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Nury Turkel is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and who serves as a Commissioner to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Mr. Turkel was born in a re-education camp at the height of China's Cultural Revolution and spent the several first several months of his life in detention with his mother. He came to the United States in 1995 as a student and was later granted asylum by the U.S. government. Mr. Turkel received an M.A. in International Relations and a J...2021-06-111h 19
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This is part 3 of the discussion.
Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch
Nury Turkel, Uighur human rights lawyer, founder of the Uighur Human Rights Project, and Commissioner of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom"
Garnett Genuis, Member of the Canadian Parliament for...2020-11-131h 00
The Nexus with Art SwiftThe Tragedy of China's UyghursIn "The Tragedy of China's Uyghurs," I'm joined by Nury Turkel, a human rights lawyer who serves on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Turkel, who was born in a "re-education" camp in China during the Cultural Revolution, goes in depth about what is happening in that region in China - concentration camps, exploitation and destroyed families. Are the Trump Administration's efforts to fight the problem working? Also, I'll tackle the mail-in voting morass. 2020-08-2052 min
People of the PodElection 2020: VP Candidate Kamala Harris; Upheaval in LebanonThis week, we’re joined by JTA Washington Bureau Chief Ron Kampeas to unpack former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate. Then, in the wake of the fatal explosion in Beirut in last week, we speak to Matthew Levitt, Director of the Reinhard program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, about the dire need to reform Lebanon’s political system due to the pernicious role played by Iranian proxy Hezbollah. Show notes: https://www.AJC.org/TakeAction https://www.AJC.org/Conventions https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/po...2020-08-1430 min
Secular Jihadists for a Muslim EnlightenmentCultural Genocide of Uyghur Muslims: With Nury TurkelWatch the video version of this conversation: https://youtu.be/tj_CjUzrEzY Up to 2 million Uyghurs are currently being held in WW2-style concentration camps in China as we speak. They are being subjected to torture, forced indoctrination, human trafficking, organ harvesting, forced sterilization, and other egregious human rights abuses as part of a massive ethnic and cultural genocide effort. Nury Turkel is Commissioner at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (most recently appointed by Nancy Pelosi), and a member of the Uyghur community who grew up in the Xinjiang region, or East Turkistan, and h...2020-08-021h 19
Dignified Resilience with Riada AkyolRiada talks to Nury Turkel and Samira Imin about the Uyghur humanitarian crisisRiada talks to Nury Turkel and Samira Imin about the ongoing horrific persecution of their people - the Uyghurs, and the admirable resilience with which so many of them around the world advocate for the justice and freedom of their loved ones. Uyghurs are mostly Muslim ethnically Turkic minority concentrated in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. Over the last few years, they have faced immense pressures and campaigns with the aim of destroying their cultural and religious identity. Under pretext of religious extremism and separatism, at least a million people disappeared, as they are interned in the so called re-education ca...2020-05-131h 23
DeconstructedWhy Don’t We Care About China’s Uighur Muslims?It’s been described as the worst human rights crisis in the world — the arbitrary detention in sprawling camps of a million or more Uighur Muslims in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province. The Chinese government has claimed that the camps are merely vocational training centers, but in November a trove of leaked documents, dubbed the China Cables, confirmed what the world had long suspected: the camps are Communist Party re-education centers in which Uighurs are forced to abandon their traditional religion and language. Nury Turkel is a U.S.-based attorney and Uighur rights advocate and he joins Mehdi Hasan to dis...2019-12-2937 min
Podcast Brunch ClubKaiser Kuo, co-host of the Sinica podcastSteven Zampanti, the leader of our PBC chapter in Minneapolis, chats with Kaiser Kuo, the founder and co-host of the Sinica podcast from SupChina. We featured two episodes of Sinica on the podcast listening list on Understanding China: “The China Questions, with Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi” and “Howard French on how China’s past shapes its present ambitions.”
Some of the things they talked about:
UNDERSTANDING CHINA podcast listening list
Podcasts within the SupChina network: Sinica, The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, ChinaEconTalk, NüVoices, TechBuzz China by Pandaily, Middle Earth
Sinica interviews about the situation in Xinjiang: i...2019-06-1819 min
Podcast Brunch ClubKaiser Kuo, co-host of the Sinica podcastSteven Zampanti, the leader of our PBC chapter in Minneapolis, chats with Kaiser Kuo, the founder and co-host of the Sinica podcast from SupChina. We featured two episodes of Sinica on the podcast listening list on Understanding China: “The China Questions, with Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi” and “Howard French on how China’s past shapes its present ambitions.”
Some of the things they talked about:
UNDERSTANDING CHINA podcast listening list
Podcasts within the SupChina network: Sinica, The Caixin-Sinica Business Brief, ChinaEconTalk, NüVoices, TechBuzz China by Pandaily, Middle Earth
Sinica interviews about the situation in Xinjiang: i...2019-06-1819 min
Sinica PodcastA student leader 30 years after Tiananmen: Wu’er Kaixi reflects on the movementThis week, Kaiser is joined by Nury Turkel of the Uyghur Human Rights Project in an in-depth conversation with Wu'er Kaixi (Örkesh Dölet), best known as one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen protests that rocked Beijing 30 years ago. He talks about the heady intellectual freedom of the 1980s, the movement's goals in 1989, the frustrations of exile, and his growing involvement in the Uyghur diaspora's efforts to draw attention to Beijing's draconian detentions of Uyghurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region. What to listen for on this week’s Sinica Podcast: 17:41: Nury references a movement that is of...2019-06-141h 22
Sinica Early AccessA student leader 30 years after Tiananmen: Wu'er Kaixi reflects on the movementThis week, Kaiser is joined by Nury Turkel of the Uyghur Human Rights Project in an in-depth conversation with Wu'er Kaixi (Örkesh Dölet), best known as one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen protests that rocked Beijing 30 years ago. He talks about the heady intellectual freedom of the 1980s, the movement's goals in 1989, the frustrations of exile, and his growing involvement in the Uyghur diaspora's efforts to draw attention to Beijing's draconian detentions of Uyghurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr...2019-06-101h 22
KonfliktKina internerar hundratusentals – världen ser påOm Kinas makt och de som vill bryta tystnaden. Massinterneringen av etniska minoriteter i Xinjiang är inte längre en nyhet allt fler talar om ett försök att radera en hel kultur. Vad gör världen? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Hör den oberoende tyske forskaren som upptäckte lägren och har sett dem växa, antropologen Adrian Zenz. I början av 2017 började han förstå vad som var på väg att hända i Xinjiang i västra Kina. Zenz hörde vittnesmål om att personer ur...2019-05-3055 min
War News RadioSecret Internment Camps and Political Repression: China's Brutal Crackdown on the UighursMore than a million members of the Uighur community in China have been detained in secret internment camps in by the Chinese government. Reports from the region indicate mass political repression and a widespread crackdown on the ethnic Uighur minority. The Chinese government tightly controls any access to the Chinese controlled Xinjiang autonomous region, so information is limited through hearing first and second hand accounts by Uighurs. In this episode we do just that, and speak to Nury Turkel, an attorney and the founder of the the Washington D.C. based Uighur Human Rights Project. With his help, we try...2019-05-1216 minSinica PodcastAn update on the Xinjiang crisis with Nury TurkelKaiser sat down with Nury Turkel, chairman and founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, at the recent Association for Asian Studies conference in Denver for an impromptu catch-up on the current crisis in Xinjiang. Nury last appeared on the Sinica Podcast half a year ago. They discussed the policy options available to the U.S. as well as the difficulties of trying to get through to Chinese elites and ordinary Chinese people alike. What to listen for on this week’s Sinica Podcast: 2:31: The conversation begins with a recap of vote counts and support behind bipartisan bills that are...2019-04-0546 minSinica Early AccessAn update on the Xinjiang crisis with Nury TurkelKaiser sat down with Nury Turkel, chairman and founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, at the recent Association for Asian Studies conference in Denver for an impromptu catch-up on the current crisis in Xinjiang. They discuss the policy options available to the U.S., as well as the difficulties of trying to get through to Chinese elites and ordinary Chinese people alike.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.2019-04-0146 min
Asia Rising#115 What's happening to the Uyghur in China?
In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’.
China faces mounting pressure from international human rights groups, governments, and academics to end these practices, but will anything help the Uyghurs?
Guests:
Nury Turkel (Uyghur Human Rights Project)
Associate Professor James Leibold (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)2019-01-2928 min
Asia RisingWhat's happening to the Uyghur in China?In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’.
China faces mounting pressure from international human rights groups, governments, and academics to end these practices, but will anything help the Uyghurs?
Guests:
Nury Turkel (Uyghur Human Rights Project)
Associate Professor James Leibold (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)
Follow Nury Turkel on Twitter: www.twitter.com/NuryTurkel
Follow James Leibold on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jleibold
Follow La Trobe Asia on Twitter: www.twitter.com/latrobeasia
Theme music: Asian Wonders by Butterfly Tea2019-01-2828 min
Global PoliticsWhat's Happening to the Uyghurs in China?In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’.
China claims the region faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists, stirring up tensions between the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority and the ethnic Han majority. After months of denial, the Chinese government now claims these camps are benign vocational training centers, but many outside observers assert that they are little more than prisons where detainees are subjected to political and cultural indoctrination without legal recourse.
As more allegations come to l...2018-12-1050 minAsia RisingEvent: What's Happening to the Uyghurs in China?
In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’.
China claims the region faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists, stirring up tensions between the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority and the ethnic Han majority. After months of denial, the Chinese government now claims these camps are benign vocational training centers, but many outside observers assert that they are little more than prisons where detainees are subjected to political and cultural indoctrination without legal recourse.
As more alle...2018-12-1000 min
Asia RisingWhat's Happening to the Uyghurs in China?In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’.
China claims the region faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists, stirring up tensions between the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority and the ethnic Han majority. After months of denial, the Chinese government now claims these camps are benign vocational training centers, but many outside observers assert that they are little more than prisons where detainees are subjected to political and cultural indoctrination without legal recourse.
As more allegations come to light about the treatment of U...2018-12-1050 min
Lowy InstitutePanel Discussion: China's Xinjiang detentionsChina is holding hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in detention camps in Xinjiang, western China, in what appears to be a systematic targeting of an entire ethnic and religious group in the name of national security. After first denying their existence, China now claims the camps are vocational centres designed to combat extremism. The Uighur community, however, tell a different story – of detainees being forced to denounce their Islamic faith and swear allegiance to the communist party.The Lowy Institute's Richard McGregor hosted a discussion of the situation in Xinjiang, and how the scale of the camps was un...2018-12-0654 min
The Little Red PodcastXi Jinping’s War on Uighurs. Part 3: The Endgame"Domestically I don't think the Uighur culture will survive." China now acknowledges the existence of mass indoctrination camps in Xinjiang - which it calls 'vocational training centres' - after months of denial. Its latest propaganda campaign showcases Uighurs inside the camps thanking the Party for teaching them skills and saving them from Islamic extremism. In this episode, Louisa and Graeme are joined by Nury Turkel, chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, and James Leibold of La Trobe University to explore the reasons behind the Communist Party’s about-face. The traditional Uighur way of life now faces an existential th...2018-11-0641 minSinica PodcastNury Turkel and the Uyghur plightThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by Nury Turkel, a prominent voice in the overseas Uyghur community and the chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, now based in Washington, D.C. We discussed Nury’s own experiences as a Uyghur and an activist both in China and the United States; the increasingly vocal Uyghur diaspora around the world in the wake of widespread detentions in Xinjiang; the relative absence of state-level pushback outside of China; and the international organizations that advocate for Uyghur rights in China and the accompanying pushback from Beijing. If you aren’t yet...2018-10-111h 07Sinica Early AccessNury Turkel and the Uyghur plightThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by Nury Turkel, a prominent voice in the overseas Uyghur community and the chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, now based in Washington, D.C. We discussed Nury’s own experiences as a Uyghur and an activist both in China and the United States; the increasingly vocal Uyghur diaspora around the world in the wake of widespread detentions in Xinjiang; the relative absence of state-level pushback outside of China; and the international organizations that advocate for Uyghur rights in China and the accompanying pushback from Beijing. If you aren’t yet u...2018-10-081h 07The InterviewNury Turkel - Uyghur Human Rights Project, Washington'Sense the party's thought, obey the party's words, follow the party's lead' are the words printed in red on a building at an internment camp in Xinjiang, China. It is one of the country's wealthiest provinces, and also one of its most restive. It has one and a half per cent of China's population, yet over 20 per cent of its arrests. Meanwhile, there are reports of over a million people currently in detention. The Government says the camps are needed to "re-educate" the people. Nury Turkel, chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, disagrees. Uyghurs, an ethnic group who...2018-09-1722 min
Q & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerE169. The New Gulag in ChinaAt the Ricochet Podcast Summit, Jay’s guest was Nury A. Turkel, who had a grim and horrifying topic to discuss: a new gulag in China, which contains up to a million Uyghurs (a Turkic minority). Turkel himself is a Uyghur American. This issue is personal, national, and international, all three. Something to know about, in a world pregnant with horrors. Source Get full access to Onward and Upward at www.jaynordlinger.com/subscribe2018-05-1639 minQ & A, Hosted by Jay NordlingerE169. The New Gulag in ChinaAt the Ricochet Podcast Summit, Jay’s guest was Nury A. Turkel, who had a grim and horrifying topic to discuss: a new gulag in China, which contains up to a million Uyghurs (a Turkic minority). Turkel himself is a Uyghur American. This issue is personal, national, and international, all three. Something to know about, in a world pregnant with horrors. Source Get full access to Onward and Upward at www.jaynordlinger.com/subscribe2018-05-1639 min