| East Turkestan/Uyghurstan/Xinjiang - Xinjiang is an autonomous region of China, but there have been several movements by the Turkic locals (mostly Uyghurs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Kazakhs and persophone Tadjiks), over the past century, to gain independence. Calls for the independence of East Turkestan from Chinese control have grown louder since independence was gained for the republics in West Turkestan (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. |
