- Isa Alptekin
Infobox Politician
name = Isa Yusuf Alptekin
image_size = 100px
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office =General Secretary of theNational Assembly ,First East Turkestan Republic
term_start =12 November 1933
term_end =6 February ,1934
predecessor ="Office instituted"
successor ="Office abolished"
birth_date = 1901
birth_place =Yengisar County , Kashgar vilayet,Eastern Turkestan
death_date = 1995
death_place =Istanbul ,Turkey
profession =Politician Isa Yusuf Alptekin (1901-1995) was a Uyghur political leader, exiled from
China in 1949. He was born at 1901 inYengisar County of Kashgar vilayet inEastern Turkestan . He headed theFirst East Turkestan Republic inKashgar (November 12 ,1933 -February 6 ,1934 ) as theGeneral Secretary of theNational Assembly of theRepublic , alongsidePrime Minister Sabit Damulla, and titularPresident Hoja-Niyaz . He also represented Eastern Turkestan in Nanking from 1932 to 1934. Initially theRepublic was named the "Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan" (TIRET), representing the multi-national staff of itsGovernment , which included Uyghurs as well asKazakhs andKyrgyz ; its anti-Hui , anti-Han, and anti-communist policies, declared in itsDeclaration of Independence ; and basicIslam ic principles, declared in itsConstitution . Later, however, some leaders attempted to rename it as the Republic ofUyghurstan , which resulted in the issuing of national currency in the form of minted copper ("pul"), silver ("tanga"), and gold ("tilla") coins under the name "Uyghurstan Jumhuriyeti".Isa Yusuf Alptekin was the father of
Erkin Alptekin . He died at the age of 94, in Istanbul, in 1995, and around 1,000,000 Turkish people, from top government officials to ordinary citizens, participated in his farewell mourning procession. Isa was buried in a grave next to the graves of two former Turkish presidents, and a memorial park, named after him, was erected in Istanbul with the Eastern Turkestan national flag, "Kok Bayraq", flying on its grounds.References
*Mark Dickens. "The Soviets in Sinkiang (1911-1949)". USA, 1990.
Links
* [http://crwflags.com/fotw/flags/cn-islam.html Flags of Independence]
* [http://oxuscom.com/sovinxj.htm The Soviets in Xinjiang (1911-1949) by Mark Dickens]
* [http://washington.eastwestcenter.org/publications/bovingdon.pdf Gardner Bovingdon. " Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han nationalists imperatives and uyghur discontent."]
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