Even though all historic, cultural and scientific data, prevents any doubt, not to say outright disproves such an interpretation, the Chinese narration continues to insist on something that cannot be described as anything other than outright foolish in their strange descriptions. The last of these narrations perhaps is the one that was written in a recent book called the “White Book”, by the Chinese government. If we examine the descriptions regarding Eastern Turkistan in this book, we can find the following:

“Some former colonialists called Xinjiang Eastern Turkistan to realize the objective of separating Xinjiang from China and dominating the region ... They fabricated the deceptive theory that works as propaganda stating that Xinjiang is the homeland of the Eastern Turkistan people.” It is also stated that: “Since the beginning of the 20th century, a minority separatist group, consisting of some blind, fanatic and radical religious groups, has come up with some theories regarding Eastern Turkistan; but these theories have no foundation and are merely the invention of former colonialists. According to this propaganda, Eastern Turkistan was an independent nation from ancient time and the people living in the region have a history that goes back nearly ten thousand years.”4

This narrative, which admits that this region was Eastern Turkistan and not part of Chinese territories, is in contradiction of every fact ever recorded by historians throughout Islamic history. It refers to these historians as former colonialists and claims that it is they who fabricated the name Eastern Turkistan. However, not only does this book ignore the history behind the name “Xinjiang”, it also ignores the ethnologic meaning of the word, which in and of itself proves the historical facts that are denied in this book. Also, in the summary of the book that was published in the People of China Journal, no explanatory information is offered about the issues which are referred to as fabricated assumptions about the history of the region, a history which in fact dates back ten thousand years.

Moreover, this summary provides no evidence of what it describes as “theories that have no foundation and (which are) the invention of former colonialists,” nor are the names of the persons given, merely claiming that “these are Muslims”. However, China has only referred to this region as “Xinjiang” in the recent past, how then can they dare to invent a history that dates back for ten thousands years that is connected to them? In this case, who is actually inventing something out of nothing and who is using unsupported evidence? Which narration is more plausible; that of China or that of Turkistan?

Another strange issue about the Chinese narration is that it ignores then dozens of historical revolutions and the millions of victims in Turkistan since the Manchu dynasty started to rule over the region. This narration also presents the protests and revolts of the Uyghur in the 20th century as separatist movements. However, the struggle between China and the Russian czars over the region is not seen as a part of the history. While the book mentions the ethnic groups that formed the society in