We go minority in China. The government insisting the camps are vocational training facilities.

But rights groups say people in the centers are held against their will and are forced to denounce their language and religion.

China has accused the US of trying to suppress Chinese companies after the country added 11 of

them to an economic blacklist because of human rights abuses against Muslim minorities.

Ambassador, that is not beautiful coverage, however, is it?

Can I ask you why people are kneeling, blindfolded and shaven and being led to trains in modern China.

I do not know where you get this a bit of tape.

In the last few weeks, the plight of the Uyghurs in China has been back in the news. The Times

correspondent in Istanbul, Hannah Lissinder Smith, has been speaking to a member of

the Uyghur community living in exile about his story.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Man Vim Rana. Today, Turkey and the Weiger Exiles. Oh, Hello, I'm Jane Garvey and I'm Feig Glover and did you know that if you're a Times

subscriber you can now access exclusive shows including shows and

interviews from the Times Radio Archive and bonus episodes of Off Air with Jane and Fee via Apple Podcasts.

So if you have an iPhone, head to Apple.co.

slash The Times to link your time subscription to Apple Podcasts and start listening. Hannah Lissinder Smith has been speaking to Weegers living in Turkey and one in particular told her his story.

Abdullah Perich is a poet from Xinjiang province.

He's from the Uyghur minority and he took the decision to leave China in August 2013. He'd suffered more than a decade of surveillance

and pressure from the Chinese authorities and things were starting to get really, really bad for the Uyghurs in China.

Thousands of Uyghurs are now trying to leave China.

They use underground routes and secret stopovers to get themselves to Malaysia.

Then they try to fly to Turkey, the Turkish government thought willing to help them.

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