ISTANBUL -- Relations between Turkey and China have been making progress as of late, after years of stagnation mostly due to the thorny issue of China's alleged ill treatment of its ethnic Turkic Muslim minority of Uyghurs.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Kazakhstan on July 4. (Turkish presidency)
ISTANBUL -- Relations between Turkey and China have been making progress as of late, after years of stagnation mostly due to the thorny issue of China's alleged ill treatment of its ethnic Turkic Muslim minority of Uyghurs.