The Chinese Embassy in Turkey and the Turkish Ministry of Education recently organized a drawing contest entitled “My Imaginary China” for Turkish high school students, intended to celebrate the “50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Turkey. The contest announcement was posted on social media platforms, and “#hayalimdekicin” soon became a popular hashtag, with many Twitter users posting pictures of Uighurs being persecuted in protest, including even former Turkish Prime Minister Daftoglu.
Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported that these paintings include men sitting on the ground in groups of blue shirts under the iron curtain in Xinjiang concentration camps, adults wearing red robes painted with five-star flags covering the mouth and nose of Uyghur girls with braids, bloodstained blue background star and moon flags with five stars painted in the blood stains, and boys sitting alone at home crying on Eid al-Fitr when all the adults at home were imprisoned in concentration camps.
Ahmet Davutoglu, a longtime ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who served as foreign minister and prime minister, also tweeted a painting of others with the text “My imaginary China. The tweet said, “What we imagine is East Turkestan. Dear children, draw your dreams of saving your brothers and sisters in our homeland and send them to the contest. Say it out loud so that those who don’t want to see it can hear it.”
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