China’s President Xi Jinping will meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, on the sidelines of a regional security meeting in Central Asia, state media said. Beijing’s ties with Ankara have been overshadowed by international criticism of China’s alleged human rights abuses against the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority in the country’s northwest Xinjiang region. China has been accused for years of detaining more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, and a UN report has stated torture allegations were credible. “On the morning of September…