You carry two articles about the hapless Uighurs in your last issue. The first invites the reader to visit your website, where a collection of photographs of Uighurstan is to be found (“Fighting for Survival,” July 18, 2009). But the photograph attached to the article tells it all: raised platforms covered with carpets and women dressed in traditional clothing, including headgear widely associated with Islam. The second outlines Turkey’s attitudes toward recent bloodshed in Xinjiang, where Uighurs suffered many a loss (“Troubles Across Turkestan”). As you say in the second article: “Turkey’s cultural, religious, and ethnic links with Xinjiang make it difficult for leaders there to keep quiet.” How could they, indeed? When I asked my Croatian friends to guess where the picture from the first article was taken, they were unanimous: “Bosnia.” There was no doubt in their voices, either. Turkestan is no joke. It exists. It is real. And it stretches from Central Europe to Western China. No wonder the fate of the hapless Uighurs stretches at least this far.