The school on the outskirts of Istanbul is a rare place where Uighur child refugees from
China can study their language and culture.
![China took their parents: the Uighur refugee children of Turkey](http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/aff33bab3e3d0da5f8018dda6d645cdaaa156145.jpg)
Having fled a worsening crackdown on Uighur Muslims in northwest China, some of their parents thought it was still safe to return occasionally for business and to visit family, only to disappear into a shadowy network of re-education camps from which no communication is permitted.
Nine-year-old Fatima has only vague memories of her homeland -- and now, of her father, too.