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Nury Turkel

Nury Ablikim Turkel (; ; Chinese: 努里·特克尔, pinyin: Nǔlǐ Tèkè'ěr; b. 1970) is an American attorney, public official and human rights advocate based in Washington, D.C. He is currently Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

Turkel was born in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. After finishing his undergraduate in 1995, he moved to the United States. He is former president of the Uyghur American Association and is currently serving as the chairman of the board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project. In 2020, Turkel was appointed a USCIRF commissioner by then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Turkel is the first U.S.-educated Uyghur lawyer and the first Uyghur American to be appointed to a political position in the United States. In 2020, he was included on ''Time''s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

He is the author of ''No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs.'' Provided by Wikipedia