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Eastern Turkestan became a part of the China both politically and geographically when Chinese Communist Party (CCP) culminated the power struggle with Guomindang (Nationalistic Party) successfully in 1949. However, it took decades getting the Uyghurs under the complete socio-cultural influence of China due to the insistent and deliberate ethnic pressure policies of the CCP and it was after the 2000s. Especially the governmental pressures on language, education and culture of the Uyghurs was started with the foundation of Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in 1955 and been increasingly growing nowadays. These fifty years long sociocultural assimilation policies of CCP can be defined under the category of “compulsory socio-cultural change” from the perspective of the science of sociology. The reality of forceful change will trigger the irreversible cultural erosion in Uyghur Turk Society. This article, based on the research methodology of participant observation and qualitative data obtained from the interviews, investigated the intellectuals in Uyghur Turk Society between the years of 2003-2013. To understand the cultural disorientation phenomenon better, more detailed study has been especially made on the sample of Chinese spoken Uyghurs. 

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