Uyghur American elected as chairman of US Commission on International Religious Freedom

June 25, 2022

In a long career in advocacy, 50-year-old Turkel also served as chairman of the board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project in Washington, he has played a major role in raising global awareness of the plight of the 12 million Uyghurs in the Chinese-controlled Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

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