CHINA-TURKEY/PROTEST China says tourists attacked in Turkey during anti-China protests

Record ID: 148412

  • Title: CHINA-TURKEY/PROTEST China says tourists attacked in Turkey during anti-China protests
  • Date: 5th July 2015
  • Summary: ISTANBUL, TURKEY (JULY 5, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING SLOGANS UIGHURK TURK HOLDING A CHINESE FLAG AND CHANTING CHINESE FLAG SET ABLAZE PROTESTERS CHANTING 'GOD IS GREAT' / CHINESE FLAG ON FIRE CHILDREN HOLDING FLAGS PROTESTERS GATHERING OUTSIDE CHINA'S ISTANBUL CONSULATE PROTESTERS CARRYING FLAGS AND CHANTING ALLAH-U AKBAR AS THEY MARCH ANKA
  • Embargoed: 20th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5UFJXBMQR3G7LNGTZ5GTEZQZ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Turks continued to protest outside China's diplomatic missions in Istanbul and Ankara on Sunday (July 5) after China warned its citizens travelling in Turkey to be careful of anti-Beijing protests, saying some Chinese tourists have recently been "attacked and disturbed".
    A notice, posted on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on Sunday, said there had been "multiple" demonstrations in Turkey targeting the Chinese government.
    Relations between Turkey and China have been strained recently over the treatment of Muslim Uighur people in China's far western region of Xinjiang, who have reportedly had been banned from worship and fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
    China's treatment of the Uighurs is an important issue for many Turks, who see themselves as sharing a common cultural and religious background. Turkey vowed on Friday (July 3) to keep its doors open to ethnic Uighurs fleeing persecution.
    Turkish daily Hurriyet reported a small group of people were attacked last week in a Chinese restaurant in Istanbul's touristy Tophane district, smashing windows.
    On Sunday in Istanbul, several hundred protesters marched towards the Chinese consulate carrying flags and chanting anti-China slogans outside the building, located towards the end of a leafy uphill road from the coast of the Bosphorus strait.
    Earlier in the day, some of the protesters had burned a Chinese flag.
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