Similar words: turkistan, turkmenistan, turkey, cold turkey, talk turkey, republic of turkey, pikestaff, smokestack. Meaning: n. a historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the West.
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1. The training camp was run by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a group that the United Nations in 2002 labeled a terrorist organization, according to Ba .
2. East Turkestan is rich in resources, but we have not seen the economic benefits.
3. However, he remained master of Mongolia and Turkestan, and outlived Kublai.
4. Experts said the East Turkestan Islamic Movement was believed to be a very small organisation.
5. The "Eastern Turkestan" terrorist forces are trained, equipped and financed by international terrorist organizations.
6. The ancient traveler leaving China along this road would pass through Dunhuang before braving the many hazards of the journey westwards through East Turkestan (present-day Xinjiang).
7. Chinese officials have actually repeatedly complained to their Pakistani counterparts about the presence of East Turkestan Islamic Movement cells reportedly based in Pakistan's tribal areas.
8. Qin says the 17 men are members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a group the United Nations lists as a terrorist organization.
9. Hundreds of checkpoints Our correspondent says that China has suggested the threat it faces comes mainly from a group called the East Turkestan Islamic movement.
10. Spokeswoman Jiang says China wants the men to be prosecuted in China, because they are members of the East Turkestan terrorist organization(sentencedict .com), which is on a sanction list of the U.N. Security Council.
11. Ahlbert says about these girls, "These girls were surely the first girls in Eastern Turkestan who had had a real youth before getting married.
12. Wen emphasized that the "three forces", i.e. terrorism, separatism and extremism, including the "East Turkestan", have increasingly become the major threats to regional security and stability.
13. Sir Aurel Stein was one of the keyman in history of the exploration in northwest of Chinese Turkestan and Dunhuang Studies.
14. Nothing could be a better example of that than the process which finally absorbed Eastern Turkestan, giving China full control of the country.
15. A senior Chinese official has warned that Uighurs agitating for an independent "East Turkestan" in the predominantly Muslim region were plotting attacks on the Games.
16. These Turks were only 100 families strong when they came from Chinese Turkestan, but they now number 2000 families.
17. Ma, the Olympics security chief, said investigations have found that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM,(sentencedict.com) has been plotting terror attacks on games venues.
18. There are indications that he may have led expeditions as far as Kashgar in Chinese Turkestan, leading to the first known contacts between China and the West around 200 BC.
19. The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, in the town of Yasi, now Turkestan, was built at the time of Timur (Tamerlane), from 1389 to 1405.
20. China says the 17 are suspected members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which Beijing and Washington have both labeled a terrorist organization.
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