Mekit

English Etymology Borrowed from en ug مەكىت. Pronunciation en Proper noun en Makit. en 2013 https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/maralbeshi-04242013190839.html Xinjiang Violence Leaves 21 Dead w:Shohret Hoshur; Qiao Long; Hai Nan; Luisetta Mudie; Parameswaran Ponnudurai Dolkun Kamberi; Luisetta Mudie; Mamatjan Juma w:Radio Free Asia A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred. https://web.archive.org/web/20260926113808/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/maralbeshi-04242013190839.html 26 September 2026 en April 20, 2017 Imagining Re-Engineered Muslims in Northwest China Darren Byler Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World 2 A black and white reproduction of a Uyghur farmer propaganda poster from Mekit County, Kashgar Prefecture, in 1975. en 2020 https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/china-video-ad-calls-100-uighur-women-urgently-marry-han-men China Video Ad Calls for 100 Uighur Women to ‘Urgently’ Marry Han Men Asim Kashgarian w:Voice of America Zumrat Dawut, 38, a Uighur female activist, told VOA that her neighbors, the Nurehmets from Mekit, Xinjiang, had to agree to wed their 18-year-old daughter to a Han Chinese out of fear that they could be sent to internment camps. https://web.archive.org/web/20210906171648/https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/china-video-ad-calls-100-uighur-women-urgently-marry-han-men 6 September 2021