Exile cities like Istanbul become hubs organizing Uyghur and Kashmiri resistance

Evidence

Istanbul was indeed a crossroads. A new crossroads of possibility for peoples stripped of their land, and a revolutionary cosmopolitanism that revitalized movements flattened by authoritarian hegemons and imperial bigots. The city spawned institutions like ILKE and Kashmir House, established to reclaim the narrative of the people and the future trajectory of their movement. It birthed the network of civic, educational, and media organizations that held the Uyghur people together against ethnic cleansing and genocide. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1224

Categorization

• XREF: Shows states and movements learning/gathering abroad — mirrors the institution-building argument and the Champagne-fairs-style role of neutral ground for trust and organizing.