Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Tuesday that he and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed the situation of the Uighur Turks.

Stating that he and Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China discussed bilateral issues, including energy and investments, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said they also considered the situation of Uyghur Turks.

"We will send an observation delegation to Xinjiang upon invitation of the Chinese authorities," the minister said on his official Twitter account.

Over a million Muslim Uighurs are being held in facilities the state has dubbed a "training camp" in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in western China.

These camps, resembling prisons, were officially turned into "vocational qualification training centers", that is how Chinese officials say, as part of the fight against "radical ideologies".

In camps where it is forbidden for Muslims to perform prayers, "students" stay in a ward where 10 people live.

Regarding the training, facility officials said, "We are weeding out the extreme trends in their thinking," which these statements considered as assimilation policy. (ILKHA)