Turkistan Islamic Party

The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) Türkistan Islam Partiyisi (Uyghur: تۈركىستان ئىسلام پارتىيىسى, Түркистан Ислам Партийиси‎) Ḥizb al-Islāmī al-Turkistānī (Arabic:الحزب الإسلامي التركستاني‎) or Ḥizb al-Islāmī li-Turkistān (Arabic:الحزب الإسلامي لتركستان‎), or in Turkish:Türkistan İslam Cemaati (Turkistan Islam Jamaat) or Türkistan İslam Partisi, or East Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP) (حزب الإسلام لتركستان الشرقية), formerly known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) (Arabic:حركة شرق تركستان الإسلامية‎), and other names, is an Islamic terrorist and separatist organization founded by Uyghur militants in western China. Its stated goals are the independence of East Turkestan from China, the establishment of an Islamic state across the entire Central Asia and a caliphate. According to the Chinese government, it is a violent separatist movement and is often responsible for terrorist attacks in Xinjiang. According to Chinese report, published in 2002, between 1990 to 2001 ETIM had reportedly committed over 200 acts of terrorism, resulting in at least 162 deaths and over 440 injuries. Since the September 11 attacks, the group has been designated as a terrorist organization by Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, United Arab Emirates, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States.