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“Sports watching is one of the best ways that dictatorships and oppressive governments are able to benefit from this and try to make themselves look good through the one thing that brings people together,” said Irade Kashgary, a board member of the nonprofit advocacy group Uyghur American Assn.

It’s also critical, says Irade Kashgary, co-founder of Ana Care and Education in Fairfax, Va., a Sunday school of sorts for the area’s Uighur community.

By an irade of the sultan, Hassun was now formally restored, and in 1880 he was adorned with a red hat by Leo XIII.

A written decree of an Ottoman sultan is also termed an irade, the word being taken from the Arab. irādā, will, volition, order.

In 1883 Lord Annesley’s yacht, belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron, was detained at the Dardanelles in consequence of her flying the white ensign of the royal navy which brought her under the category of a man-of-war, and no foreign man-of-war is allowed to pass the Dardanelles without first obtaining an imperial irade.