2013 Lukqun incident
While almost all of these violent incidents in 2013 took place in the south of the Uyghur region, the most bloody of them took place in June in the town of Lukqun near Turpan in the north where a group of Uyghurs wielding machetes allegedly attacked a police station, local government buildings, and a construction site. In the end, the Uyghur attackers had allegedly killed 17 people, and all 10 purported attackers were killed by security forces.
TIP issued a video praising the violence in Lukqun, which it framed again as an act of jihad, and calling Uyghurs inside the homeland to carry out more jihad operations. However, it remained unclear what had happened in Lukqun and whether it was politically motivated at all.