Dec 12, 1997. The 35th conference of the World Islamic Unity organization was held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, from December 6 to 10. It is reported that the issue of persecutions of Muslims in Eastern Turkistan was addressed on the conference. General Muhammed Riza Bekin, the head of the Eastern Turkistan Center in Turkey, gave a speech on the conference on religious and ethnic persecutions of the Uyghurs in Eastern Turkistan. The conference adopted a resolution on Eastern Turkistan. After the conference, General Riza Bekin had talks with the Eastern Turkistan refugees in Saudi Arabia on establishing a single organization that will unite the Eastern Turkistanis around the world.
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