@article{2017,title={LANGUAGE POLICIES APPLIED IN CHINA AND THE STATUS OF UYGHUR TURKS},abstractNode={Language politics are a set of practices against the languages of different ethnic peoples within a political authority. In this context China is, with a population of 1.3 billion people, the most populated country on earth. In the country where nearly 200 ethnic nations live, the majority of the population consists of Han Chinese. In this work, the language policies applied to other ethnic groups in China, governed by the Communist regime, will be conveyed in a timely, historical course. In the last part, the approaches and policies of the Chinese government to the Uyghur Turks, our cognates, will be discussed.},author={Gülşah BULUT},year={2017},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}