Thousands of Uighurs have joined the Turkmen Brigade in Syria. Including Uyghur sympathizers of the 'Islamic State'. Uighur nationalism is of the opinion that the Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group that mainly inhabits China's Xinjiang region, should form an independent state. It is assumed that the number of Uighurs is 1.0 to 1.6 million. Uighurs speak the Uighur language and are generally Muslim.
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