The addition of signs in Chinese to Istanbul’s tram and metro stops have caused fury on social media, with users accusing the city’s municipality of accommodating Beijing amid ongoing mistreatment of the country’s Uighur Muslims.

The Chinese signs are part of an agreement signed between the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) and China, pro-government Islamist Yeni Akit newspaper reported on Saturday.

The signs have been placed on Istanbul’s Çapa-Şehremini and Pazartekke tram stops, along with numerous metro stops, it said.

"How many Chinese tourists come to Istanbul in a year, for God’s sake,’’ one Twitter user said. "We keep talking about Uighur Turks and how we should speak out as a nation. But just look at what is being done [instead]’’.