World Uyghur Congress
Erkin Alptekin has founded various organizations for separatist movements, mostly related to the Uyghur nationalist cause. In 1985 he participated in the founding of the "Allied Committee of the Peoples of East Turkistan, Tibet and Inner Mongolia", which held its first conference in 1998 in New York. He founded the East Turkistan Union in Europe in Europe. In 1991, he also became one of the founders of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), which has its headquarters in The Hague. During a conference held in Munich in April 2004 Alptekin was elected the President of the World Uyghur Congress.