Following a protest in Istanbul on Saturday against the alleged "mistreatment of Muslim Uygur people in China", China's embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara has warned its residents traveling in the country to be careful and stay away from the protestors. A group of Korean tourists were reportedly mistaken as Chinese and attacked by the protesters outside the Topkapi Palace.

The anti-China protests are believed to be linked with some Western media's reports that the Chinese government had restricted Muslim Uygurs, the majority of whom live in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, from praying and fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.

Although the reports were false, they went viral on some social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter when Ramadan began on June 18, leading to online accusations of China restricting ordinary Muslims from observing Ramadan.