The Turkish government has offered Uyghurs a safe place to live outside northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, where they face persecution and are subject to human rights violations.When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a 2019 visit, he raised the treatment of Uyghurs in private talks and accepted an invitation to send a humanitarian delegation to the Xinjiang region to observe how the minority was being treated.Why have you been preventing this delegation from visiting for five years, why don't you cooperate?” Cavusoglu said, adding that even the Turkish ambassador in Beijing cannot visit Xinjiang.“He is raising the Uyghur issue because their party wanted to get votes in the upcoming election in 2023.”“Turkish people care about the East Turkistan issue,” Yokus said, using Uyghurs’ preferred name for Xinjiang.Making this statement now, this honorable foreign minister is attempting to hide their shortcomings.”Among the shortcomings are declaring that the government would respect China’s territorial integrity concerning Xinjiang and closing its eyes to the severe rights violations, including the vast network of internment camps in which an estimated 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims were detained, Yokus said."