CALLS ON MOSLEMS TO LIBERATE TURKISTANIS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 616
• Publication Date: October 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTED REST EM iD
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOR
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO
COUNTRY Turkistan
SUBJECT Politicalf sociological
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Niccsl-a
DATE
PUBLISHED 8 Jul 1951
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT SO
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DATE OF 1951
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DATE DIST. / 3 Oct 1951
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CALLS ON MOSLEMS TO LIBERATE TURKISTANIS
Nar'Muhammed Khan, who recently came to Cyprus from Egypt, yesterday held
a prss6 :onference at the Nicosia Brotherhood Club to inform the free world about
-ie tragic condition of the Turkish Moslems of Turkistan.
Nur !4uhammed has been away from Turkistan for 13 years, 10 of which have
been spent in Egypt. However, he and 73 Turkish Moslems from Turkistan have or-
ganized an association which has been keeping in touch with the Moslems in
Turkistan and with Turkistani leaders abroad, especially those in India and Ger-
many. The main objective of this association is to keep the free world informed
of the sufferings experienced by the population of Turkistan at the hands of the
USSR and China.
Nur Muhammed explained that the Turkish Moslems in Turkistan are tortured
constantly and live in daily terror of losing their lives; that more than five
people are not allowed to get together; that they are afraid to talk with each
other because they are surrounded by informers; and that they are in constant
fear of being imprisoned or exiled to Siberia.
He then pointed out that there is neither freedom of speech nor freedom of
religion. While Moslems throughout the world are at present celebrating the
Ramazan holidays, our brothers in Turkistan are deprived of this privilege, he
declared,
3e told about the increasing number of guerrilla actions of the Turkish
have pointing
eecaped and are escaping torforeigncountrieshtor
Mos st the lives,,s while againmany more state,
avoid exile to Siberia.
Finally, he called upon Moslem countries to unite in the cause of justice
and to liberate their Turkish Moslem brothers of Turkistan from Soviet atrocit-
ies and slavery.
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