Editing Turpan (section)

===20th and 21st centuries===
In 1931, a Uyghur rebellion broke out in the region, after a Chinese commander tried to forcibly marry a local girl.<ref name=xinjiang>{{cite book|editor=S. Frederick Starr|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland: China's Muslim Borderland|page=75|publisher=[[Routledge]]}}</ref> The Chinese responded by indiscriminately attacking Muslims; this turned the entire countryside against the Chinese administration and the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Tungans joined the rebels.<ref name=xinjiang/>

On 19 August 1981, [[Deng Xiaoping]] conducted an inspection in Turpan Prefecture.<ref name="turpanprefecture">{{cite book|script-title=zh:吐鲁番地区志|language=zh-hans|editor=柏晓 (吐鲁番地区地方志编委会)|date=September 2004|location=[[Ürümqi]]|publisher=[[:zh:新疆人民出版社|新疆人民出版社]]|isbn=7-228-09218-X|pages=50,64,748}}</ref>

On 31 March 1995, Turpan and [[Dunhuang]] became sister cities.<ref name="turpanprefecture"/>