Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, July 29, 2015. REUTERS/Ng Han Guan/Pool
BEIJING (Reuters) - The leaders of China and Turkey agreed on Wednesday to strengthen cooperation in fighting terror and people smuggling, a senior Chinese diplomat said, following friction between the two over Uighurs from China's Xinjiang who have fled to Turkey.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic minority that calls Xinjiang home, have left China in recent years, travelling to Turkey via Southeast Asia, having first illegally crossed the Chinese border.
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