[3] They have come in large numbers since the early 1950s from the northwestern provinces of China and as part of their migration to the Middle East, many of whom chose to settle down in urban centres of Turkey.

[7] Chinese Empires went through phases of trying to synthesise cultures with steppe ethnicities, including Turkic peoples, as they conquered them.

The international Cold War trade divisions of the Eastern and Western Blocs were loosening as the Sino- American relationship was strengthening.

Turkey then turned to the People's Republic of China (PRC) for support[11] since it was a member of the UN Security Council, which gave it increasing leverage in world politics.

Ankara was able to enter the rampantly growing Chinese market, and purchase weapons and missile systems that they no longer could acquire from the West.

Some founding members of this community, Mehmet Emin Buğra and İsa Yusuf Alptekin, provided social cohesion to unify disparate individuals who have fled their homeland in Communist China.

[16] The earliest migration waves of the Uyghurs to Turkey are traced back to 1952, when the Chinese Communist Party seized control of the Xinjiang region in northwest China in 1949.

[16] Largely, the organisations campaign and raise awareness, criticising alleged human rights abuses by the Chinese Government directed at the Uyghurs, who are extradited from Turkey.

[21] China's Belt Road Initiative (BRI) has renewed Chinese investors' interest in buying real estate in Turkey.

[5] This program allows foreign nationals to invest in different country sectors in order to obtain the rights of Turkish Citizenship.

[24] İstiklal Avenue, which stretches from Okmeydanı to Dolapdere, is the best-known spot where the diaspora has congregated to create a Chinatown in the city.

The head of the Turkey-China Business Council for the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK), Murat Kolbaşı, has said, "There are 'Chinatowns,' where people of Chinese origin live, in a number of cities across the world.

Large areas of Turkey's land mass are exposed to direct sunlight, allowing for solar irradiation levels of up to 1,500 KWh per square meter.

China Sunergy invested US$600 million into a production plant in Istanbul and has shipped solar modules and panels to European customers.