Uygurca Neşidler Koleksiyonu

Uyghur nasheeds (songs without music) published by İslam Awazi (Voice of Islam), the media arm of the organization ”Turkestan Islamic Party”, an Islamist group fighting in Afghanistan-Pakistan and Syria.

TIP was founded in 1997, and its member fought under the banner of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan against the Northern Alliance and later the US & NATO-Forces. It has also carried many attacks in China, which considers the group as a terrorist organization, as the main goal of the party is to achieve the independence of East Turkestan (Province Xinjiang) from China.

After the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, the group sent members to fight against the Syrian Regime in the summer of 2014. Today the Islamic Party of Turkestan is more active in its Syrian branch Katibat Turkestan, due to the lack of resources and a safe ground to lead a insurgency in their homeland.

Sharqī Türkistān (East Turkestan) is part of greater Turkestan, meaning ”land of the Turks”. In 1949 China annexed the region and it became the countries new province ”Xinjiang”, meaning ”New Borderland”. Uyghurs suffered much from the communist regimes rule, which tries to eliminate religion from the hearts of the Turkic people and assimilate them culturally, and are still oppressed and restricted. Last year’s Ramadan (2016) the authorities banned civil servants, students and children from fasting.
Many revolt attempts were made hitherto, but all harshly suppressed. Even protests are not tolerated, and may lead to terrible results and massacres, as it was the case in Urumqi 2009.