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Turkey Cuts Water Supply To Chinese Embassy After China Attacks Ankara Mayor Over Uyghur Comments
Swarajya Staff
Apr 09, 2021, 02:10 PM | Updated 02:10 PM IST
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Ankara Municipality of Turkey on Wednesday (7 April) stopped the water supply to Chinese Embassy in the city after the embassy suggested on Twitter that it could take action against two Turkish politicians who criticised Beijing's treatment of its Muslim Uyghur community.
The Chinese Embassy tagged Meral Aksener, the head of the opposition Good Party, and Ankara's mayor, Mansur Yavas, in two Twitter posts in which it defended Beijing's policies and said that the Chinese side reserves its right to a rightful response, reports The New Indian Express.
"The Chinese side resolutely opposes and strongly condemns any challenge by any person or power to China's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the embassy said.
The Chinese embassy made those comments after the two Turkish politicians marked the killing of Uyghurs by Chinese forces during an uprising in 1990 with Twitter posts.
However, the comments by Chinese embassy were widely interpreted as a threat and caused social media outrage in Turkey.
It must be noted that many Uyghurs, a Turkic group native to China's Xinjiang region, have already sought refuge in Turkey because of their shared cultural ties.
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