Aykol

English

Etymology

From Uyghur ئايكۆل (ayköl).

Proper noun

Aykol

1. A town in Aksu, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China
   • 2013 October 10, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2013‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 169:

     On August 7, on the eve of the Eid holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, police in Aykol township, Aksu prefecture, reportedly sought to prevent residents from another village from engaging in cross-village worship,¹⁰⁵ and detained several Uyghur men for engaging in "illegal religious activities."

   • 2020 September 17, “Full Text: Employment and Labor Rights in Xinjiang”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[2], archived from the original on September 20, 2020:

     A poor villager named Habibulla Mamut from Aykol Town of Aksu City applied for a position with an electrical appliance company in Hangzhou at a local job fair, was offered the post, and earned RMB55,000 that year, raising himself and his family out of poverty.

   • 2021 July 30, Shohret Hoshur, Roseanne Gerin, “Police in China’s XUAR Question Uyghurs For Attending Eid Prayers Without Permission”, in Radio Free Asia‎^[3], archived from the original on 30 July 2021:

     Authorities in Aykol township of Aksu city (in Chinese, Akesu) city allowed only Uyghurs over the age of 50 to participate in worship services during the holiday on July 20-23, the officer from the district’s police station told RFA last week.[...]The senior police officer in Aykol told RFA that more than 170 Uyghurs accused of violating regulations regarding Eid prayers are currently being held in custody, though he said he could not comment on their whereabouts or whether they were being detained in “re-education” camps or detention centers.[...]Following this year’s Eid prayers in Aksu, police checked the identification cards and searched the homes of those who attended prayer services to verify that they were over 50 years old, said an Aykol resident who declined to be named for safety reasons.

2. A township in Poskam, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China
   • 2019, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century: Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 264:

     August 2013 was a particularly violent month. On the eve of the Id al Fitr festival that signifies the end of Ramadan, clashes between police and local Uyghurs in Kargilik (Yecheng) County, which lies between Kashgar and Khotan, left between fifteen and twenty-two Uyghurs dead and there was further violence that month at Aykol, a township in Poskam (Zepu) County to the south of Yarkand, also at the end of Ramadan.

3. A village in Aykol, Poskam, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Ayikule, A-yin-k’o

Translations

populated locations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿依庫勒／阿依库勒 (Āyīkùlè)

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• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: ئايكۆل (ayköl)

Further reading

• Aykol at Google Ngram Viewer