scientific experts and skilled persons, the general secretary of the Eastern Turkistan Communist Party Wang Enmao visited the USA in October, 1985. He said the following in a statement he made to The Washington Post on 14.01.1985: “Eastern Turkistan must largely depend on skilled workers and technical persons from within China in order to attain a five-fold increase in the current industrial and agricultural income by the end of the 20th century. The Canton has assigned financial incentives to attract such people to the region. University graduates who come here will receive an additional degree in addition to their salaries immediately after their arrival; they will receive new degrees every three years. The salaries to be given to those who come are very encouraging.”7

Naturally, the reason why these officials spoke about the development of Eastern Turkistan is that the region had now become a Chinese territory and was a productive place for Chinese immigrants. Another reason was that Eastern Turkistan was a spearhead for China’s involvement in economic competition in the 21st century. China, an expert at hiding facts and regular statistics regarding rapid immigration in order to exploit the region, intends to permanently erase the region demographically from the map as a fundamental part of its global economic advances. And it has been successful in doing this. With the situation being thus, China’s claims of development, stability, national unity or merging populations living in Eastern Turkistan are of no value. Let us examine read what the former general secretary of the Communist Party, the highest political authority in China, Hu Yao Bang, said in a statement published in Newsweek on 16.06.1986: “Eastern Turkistan is similar to the Western Sahara or the Amazon basin. In this region, there are great opportunities for development. The total population of Eastern Turkistan is 14,000,000, which 6,000,000 of which are Uyghur and 5,300,000 are Chinese. This region can easily accommodate 200,000,000 Chinese!”8 In this case, what is the population merging, national unity and stability that China is talking about?

There can be no doubt that Eastern Turkistan is a country with very great opportunities. However, the Chinese made this discovery made long after the Arab historian Yakut el-Hamevi; he mentioned this subject in his voluminous work, Mu’cemu’l-Buldan (VII, 270): “Maveraunnehr is a country that is the cleanest, the most fertile, and has the most property. The people of the region like to do good deeds, are generous, and give their belongings away with all their good will. In addition, they are hardy, brave, resilient, courageous and strong people. The fertility of these lands cannot be described in words. There is nothing like it in all the Islamic countries or in any other country.” There is not much difference from what Hamevi says and what Belazuri said in his work Futuhu’l-Buldan, which he wrote at an earlier date: “This place is one of the heavens on earth created by Allah!”

These two descriptions of Eastern Turkistan also tell us that region is home to 60 million cattle, that it can provide one-third of the annual agricultural needs of China and that it possesses a fortune in more than 140 kinds of minerals. There are 2.19 trillion tons of coal, lead, iron, copper, and