However, the worst thing is that the Turkistan people are sliding towards a more dangerous point, social marginalization due to the disruption of the demographic balance. This is happening to such an extent that the level of political demands has been lowered, being decreased to the level of social requests, culminating in the Urumqi incident of 5.7.2009. In an interview with the International Uyghur Conference chairman Mrs. Rabia Kadir, given to the German Focus magazine on 12.09.2009, she lays the responsibility for the violence of the incident on the Chinese government: “The Chinese government has given us some kind of autonomy in the last few years. However, they are still treating us like animals and see us as second class citizens.” The American Christian Science Monitor Journal has stressed this issue and indicated that the Uyghur people “are seen as second class citizen who do not even have the right to be represented at even the lowest level of government commissions and who are forbidden to use their own language in their own schools.”26 The American Uyghur Union general secretary Alim Seittof says: “All the Uyghur people are asking for is that China stops ethnic discrimination. However, they are facing unimaginable pressure.”27 If we interpret these statements according to sociology, then we see the notion of “social marginalization”. However, social marginalization here does not occur within the context established by European capitalism, which was built on the ruins feudalism by European reformists at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, but rather within a context forced by Chinese policies.

When the wheel of European capitalism and industrialization started to turn at the beginning of the 19th century, the feudal system, which had maintained control over the European economy in a general sense, naturally had to collapse. However, as with all other large scale changes, many problems were faced in order to provide social integration with the new system. New modernization movements slid the ground out from under the feet of villagers. A large number of group peasants found themselves unemployed. The center of the national economy became the city. At the same time, intense modernization began in cities. The cities began to be renewed, renovated and former residential units were rebuilt in keeping with the development. When enough excess capital was generated by industrialization, finance was also provided. However, some peasants found it hard to change their former life styles and to adapt to the new one. They preferred to live in places that became known as suburbs or ghettos. The villages found themselves at the margin of European cities and in suburbs. It is at this point that the European reformists adopted the idea of persuading these strata with kindness or by force. For the welfare and future of these strata, for them to have an honorable life, they had to be integrated into the system. Now: Did China do this in Turkistan?

The modernization activities carried out in the cities and villages of Eastern Turkistan To the time this paper was prepared have merely increased the power, influence, authority and capital of the Han nation. For the Uyghur nation, which was distanced from these activities, the results were the opposite. All indications show that the Uyghur people have not been included in the industrial