Information structure in Turkic languages spoken and written in Central Asia show some specific features compared to Turkish. This article reports preliminary results of a contrastive study of focus in Turkish and Uyghur, which has been carried out as part of a project on the information structure of minority languages in China that has been underway at Minzu University of China since 2013. In principle, it follows the framework suggested by Johanson (2014), however, it also applies results of recent research on information structure to Turkish. The introduction briefly outlines main research on information structure in the Turkic languages, after which follows a description and contrastive analysis of syntagmatic focus, exclusive focus and inclusive focus. The article concludes with brief remarks on some common and divergent features observed in Turkish and some Central Asian languages, specially Uyghur. The analysis is restricted to linguistic facts at sentence level.