CHINA-INTERNAL: TERRORISM AND UYGHURS
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Global Times reported on January 14, 2015, that police in Shanghai arrested 10 Turkish nationals suspected of supplying fake passports to ethnic Uighurs from Xinjiang who were described as "terror suspects". Another 11 people, including nine Xinjiang "terror suspects", were also detained in November while trying to leave China after paying 60,000 yuan for altered Turkish passports.
The paper said terrorism-related audio and video materials were found among the suspects and that some had been bound for Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Chinese foreign ministry and the Turkish embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to requests for information about the case.
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