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Place of Birth: Artux, Xinjiang, China
About Anwar Yusuf Turani
- Anwar Yusuf Turani (Uyghur: ?????? ????? ???????, USY: ????? ????? ??????) is an ethnic Uyghur nationalist.
- Born into a family branded counter-revolutionary, Uyghur nationalist and separatist by the Chinese government, Turani was raised in a labor camp where he faced economic hardship and political oppression.
- Turani attended Kashgar Teacher's College and graduated from the Department of Physics in July 1983.
- Turani came to the United States on August 12, 1988 and became the first Uyghur political asylee.
- In 1995, Turani established the East Turkistan National Freedom Center (ETNFC), a non-profit human rights organization based in Washington DC.
- He is the first person to start the East Turkistan independence movement in the United States.
- In 2004, Turani set up the "East Turkistan Government in Exile" (ETGIE) and was elected Prime Minister.
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