{"id":3621,"date":"2020-11-02T07:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2023-10-26T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:26:04","slug":"mr-nury-a-turkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/mr-nury-a-turkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Nury A. TURKEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_small\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3741 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Nury-Turkel-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Nury-Turkel-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Nury-Turkel.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. Nury A. TURKEL<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0is a Commissioner to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), as appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in May 2020. He is the first U.S.-educated Uyghur American attorney and specializes in regulatory compliance, federal investigation and enforcement, anti-bribery, legislative advocacy, and immigration. He has also extensively worked as a human rights advocate, particularly for the Uyghurs. In 2003, Mr. Turkel co-founded the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) which he currently chairs. He also served as the president of the Uy<\/span>ghur American Association that saw the release of a prominent Uyghur prisoner of conscience. Mr. Turkel has testified numerously before the US Congress and advocated policy responses to the Uyghur genocide.\u00a0Many of his recommendations have been incorporated into U.S. laws and pending bills relating to Uyghurs and China in Congress.\u00a0Mr. Turkel has published widely in global newspapers and appeared in media like CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera and spoken at numerous forums sharing his expertise on foreign affairs. In September 2020, Mr. Turkel <span style=\"color: #000000;\">was named one of the TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr. Nury A. TURKEL\u00a0is a Commissioner to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), as appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in May 2020. He is the first U.S.-educated Uyghur American attorney and specializes in regulatory compliance, federal investigation and enforcement, anti-bribery, legislative advocacy, and immigration. He has also extensively worked as a human...","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers_2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}