Yilkiqi

English

Alternative forms

• Yilqichi

Etymology

From Uyghur يىلقىچى (yilqichi).

Proper noun

Yilkiqi

1. A township in Kargilik, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China
   • 2013 August 25, Shohret Hoshur, Parameswaran Ponnudurai, “At Least 15 Uyghurs Killed in Police Shootout in Xinjiang”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[1], archived from the original on April 1, 2021:

     Chinese authorities have shot dead at least 15 ethnic Uyghurs in a desert area in Xinjiang, accusing them of terrorism and illegal religious activity, in the latest violence to rock the troubled northwestern region of China, according to police sources.
     They were among a group of more than 20 Uyghurs surrounded and fired upon by police in a lightning raid last week in the Yilkiqi township in Kargilik (in Chinese, Yecheng) county in Kashgar prefecture, the sources said.

   • 2013 October 7, Andrew Jacobs, “Uighurs in China Say Bias Is Growing”, in New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on October 8, 2013, Asia Pacific:

     In August, paramilitary police officers not far from Kashgar shot at least 32 men, killing a dozen, during a raid on what was described as a secret “munitions center”; a few days later at least a dozen other Uighurs were killed as they prayed at a farmhouse in Yilkiqi township, according to Radio Free Asia. The authorities said the men were taking part in “illegal religious activities” and training for a terrorist attack, but did not provide further details.

   • 2013 December 17, Agence France-Presse, “Clash in China's Xinjiang kills 16”, in Dhaka Tribune, volume 1, number 263, page 6:

     In August, a Chinese policeman was killed in an incident in Yilkiqi described by state media as an “anti-terrorism” operation, but overseas media said 22 Uighurs were shot dead in the confrontation.

   • 2013, Alim Seytoff, “China's darkest corner”, in Index on Censorship‎^[3], volume 42, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on January 22, 2021, page 116:

     In the only state media reference to an August 2013 incident in Yilkiqi, the Kashgar Daily reported on the heroism of a member of the security forces who was allegedly killed during a clash with so-called terrorists. By contrast, Radio Free Asia reported that 22 Uighurs were gunned down while at prayer. According to local sources, the bodies of the dead were buried in a mass grave in order to cover up the killings.

   • 2014, Srikanth Kondapalli, “Internal Security Challenges in China”, in Satish Kumar, editor, India's National Security: Annual Review 2013‎^[4], Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 303:

     In 2013, four major incidents took place in Xinjiang.[...]Subsequently, on 20 August, 15 Uighurs were killed by police in a^[sic] 'anti-terror campaign' in Yilkiqi township in Yecheng (Kargilik) county in Kashgar prefecture.

   • 2016, Edward Mickolus, Terrorism, 2013-2015: A Worldwide Chronology‎^[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 85:

     A police helicopter had monitored the group at a house in Yilkiqi township in the southwestern Xinjiang prefecture of Kashgar for a week.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yilkiqi.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Yilikeqi

Translations

township

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 依力克其 (Yīlìkèqí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: يىلقىچى (yilqichi)