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Did you know that Uyghur activists praised Fatih Arda İpcioğlu for wearing light-blue skis at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, erroneously believing that the skis depicted the flag of East Turkestan?
A number of flags have been used to represent the cultural and geographical region of East Turkestan in Central Asia, particularly by states that broke away from China during rebellions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Nearly all the flags feature a star and crescent, a symbol of the region's Turkic and Islamic identity. The most well-known flag is the Kök Bayraq (Uyghur: كۆك بايراق, lit. 'blue flag'), introduced by the government of the short-lived First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934).
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