Uyghurs in Turkey welcome U.S. boycott of Olympics

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China's Uyghur Muslim ethnic group, which has a wide presence in Turkey, welcomed a U.S. boycott of the Winter Games in Beijing, and called on other countries to do the same.

Uyghur refugee women walk where they are housed in a gated complex in the central city of Kayseri, Turkey, February 11, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File PhotoISTANBUL, Dec 7 - China's Uyghur Muslim ethnic group, which has a wide presence in Turkey, welcomed aThe White House said on Monday U.S. government officials would boycott the Winter Olympics because of China's human rights "atrocities," although U.S. athletes were free to travel there to compete.

"In such a situation it is ridiculous to hold an Olympics there in China and in my view it is like pouring scorn on the whole world's humanity," she said. "It would be right for the whole world to stage a boycott, not just America."

 

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