Turkey Calls on China to Close Internment Camps for Uyghur Muslims

A demonstrator wearing a mask painted with the colors of the flag of East Turkestan—how some separatist Uyghurs refer to the region of Xinjiang—and a hand bearing the colors of the Chinese flag, attends a protest denouncing China's treatment of ethnic Uyghur Muslims, in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, on July 5, 2018. OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images

ISTANBUL—Turkey called on China to close its internment camps for Muslims, saying the camps, which reportedly hold a million ethnic Uyghur people, are a “great shame for humanity.”

Last week, rights activists urged European and Muslim nations to take the lead in establishing a United Nations investigation into China’s detention and “forced indoctrination” of Uyghurs, who speak a Turkic language, and other Muslims in the far-northwestern region of China known as Xinjiang.