Turkistan Islamic Party

Turkistan Islamic Party   (Islamic terrorism)

The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) or the Turkistan Islamic Movement (TIM) formerly known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), is a Uyghur Islamic extremist organisation founded in Western China. ETIM's stated goals are to establish an independent state called East Turkestan replacing the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The UN Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee has listed the ETIM as a terrorist organisation since 11 September 2002, though the United States removed it from the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs) in 2020.

US 'delists' ETIM

On 7 November 2020, the US decided to remove the ETIM from its list of terror groups, which experts say could pose a greater terrorism threat to China and be detrimental to China-US counterterrorism efforts. In July 2020, the UN Security Council said the ETIM controlled between 1,100 and 3,500 fighters, mostly in Syria and Afghanistan.

Cutting Taliban ties with ETIM

In July 2021, China pledged support for the Taliban’s role in Afghanistan’s reconstruction, while demanding that it cuts ties with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement – blamed by Beijing for terror attacks in its Xinjiang region.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the remarks during talks with a nine-member delegation led by the Taliban’s chief negotiator and co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in the northern city of Tianjin on 28 July 2021.

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