S8 Ep694: 2. Turkel recounts his 1970 birth in a Chinese re-education camp, illustrating that Uyghur persecution is a long-standing continuum. He describes his mother’s imprisonment and father’s forced labor for "ideological" crimes. Turkel eventually moved to the
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 5 April 2026
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2. Turkel recounts his 1970 birth in a Chinese re-education camp, illustrating that Uyghur persecution is a long-standing continuum. He describes his mother’s imprisonment and father’s forced labor for "ideological" crimes. Turkel eventually moved to the United States, becoming a lawyer and prominent advocate for his people. (2)
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| 0:35.1 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Batchel with Nuri Turkle, the author of No Escape, |
| 0:40.1 | the new book is The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs. |
| 0:43.9 | Nouri was born in a prison camp, his mother, Aisha. |
| 0:48.5 | Why was she in prison? |
| 0:50.1 | Why was she being abused by the guards, Norey? |
| 0:52.7 | Simply put a guilt by association. |
| 0:55.9 | My mother is a remarkable woman. |
| 1:01.3 | And anyone can say things like that about their mother, and they should. |
| 1:07.1 | But my mother was remarkable in many aspects. |
| 1:10.0 | One, she was very aware of the political environment early on, supporting my maternal |
| 1:17.9 | grandfather who was politically very active and involved in the second East Turkestan Republic. |
| 1:24.2 | That's what that was established in 1944 and dismantled by Mao's China with the help of |
| 1:30.6 | Stalin's Soviet Union. That national sentiment longing for independent state was part of the |
| 1:38.2 | Uyghur people and the society. My grandfather was very influential a businessman. He had a jewelry |
| 1:43.5 | store and he influential a businessman. He had a jewelry store, and he was a musician, |
| 1:48.3 | and he had family and friends. I gathered at my maternal grandparents' house, and my mom was a cheap |
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