Published by: THE WORLD UYGHUR NETWORK NEWS December 26, 1997

Dec 12 1997, Eastern Turkistan National Center in Istanbul

The 35th conference of the World Islamic Unity organization was held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, from December 6 to 10. It is reported that the issue of persecutions of Muslims in Eastern Turkistan was addressed on the conference. General Muhammed Riza Bekin, the head of the Eastern Turkistan Center in Turkey, gave a speech on the conference on religious and ethnic persecutions of the Uyghurs in Eastern Turkistan. The conference adopted a resolution on Eastern Turkistan. After the conference, General Riza Bekin had talks with the Eastern Turkistan refugees in Saudi Arabia on establishing a single organization that will unite the Eastern Turkistanis around the world.