ISTANBUL -- Turkey started mass inoculation with China's Sinovac vaccine on Thursday. But after its order for the vaccine faced delay after delay, some started to question if the country was being punished for dragging its feet in ratifying an extradition treaty it had signed with Beijing that could affect its Uighur diaspora.
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Bekir Bozdag, then Turkey’s justice minister, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi sign the extradition treaty in May 2017, with Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Xi Jinping presiding. © Anadolu Agency
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