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    The East Turkestan National Army (Uyghur: شەرقىي تۈركىستان مىللىي ئارمىيىسى, romanized: sherqiy türkistan milliy armiyisi) was the armed forces of the...
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    The East Turkestan Republic (ETR) was a short-lived satellite state of the Soviet Union in northern Xinjiang (East Turkestan), which existed from 1944...
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    The Turkic Islamic Republic of East Turkestan (TIRET) was a breakaway Islamic republic centered on the city of Kashgar, located in the far west of China's...
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    December, the PRC government incorporated the Ili National Army (formerly the East Turkestan National Army) into the PLA. Most of the remaining former ETR...
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    Central Asia corresponding to the regions of Transoxiana and East Turkistan (Xinjiang). Turkestan is primarily inhabited by Turkic peoples, including Uzbeks...
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    The East Turkestan independence movement is a political movement that seeks the independence of East Turkestan, a large and sparsely-populated region in...
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    The Chinese government asserts that the TIP is synonymous with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). ETIM has been described by scholars as demanding...
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    region and the East Turkestan National Army was merged into the PLA's 5th Army Corps, leading to the official end of the Second East Turkestan Republic on...
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    Margub Iskhakov (category Ili National Army)
    military officer who held several important commands in the armies of the Second East Turkestan Republic and the People's Republic of China. He defected...
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    Zunun Taipov (category Ili National Army)
    October 1984) was a Chinese Tatar military officer in the armies of the Second East Turkestan Republic and the People's Republic of China. He defected...
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    Abdulkerim Abbas (category East Turkestan independence activists)
    were organized into the East Turkestan National Army (ETNA) and Abbas became its political director. The ETNA was a multiethnic army led by Uyghurs, Kazakhs...
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    area with its own currency and military (the Ili National Army, formerly the East Turkestan National Army). However, all three sides were nonetheless invested...
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    Xinjiang (East Turkestan) against the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China, from 1944 to 1946. The Ili Rebellion began with the East Turkestan National...
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  • Yusupbek Mukhlisi (category East Turkestan independence activists)
    the United Revolutionary Front of East Turkestan (URFET) who advocated for the restoration of an independent East Turkistan Republic. Yusupbek Mukhlisi...
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    "national liberation movement" of Uyghurs throughout history. The CPSU supported the publication of works which glorified the Second East Turkestan Republic...
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    Elihan Tore (category East Turkestan independence activists)
    Turkestan Republic (ETR) next day after victory of Revolt in Ghulja city on 12 November 1944. He had a military rank of Marshal of Ili National Army,...
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  • The East Turkestan People's Revolutionary Party (Uyghur: Shärqiy Turkistan Khälq Inqilawi Partiyisi; Chinese: 东突厥斯坦人民革命党) was a Uyghur communist party[citation...
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    criminals. Prior to World War I, Russian Turkestan was ruled from Tashkent as a Krai or Governor-Generalship. To the east of Tashkent, the Ferghana Valley was...
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    Saifuddin Azizi (category Vice Chairpersons of the National People's Congress)
    the PRC in 1949, he served in the government of the breakaway Second East Turkestan Republic, as Minister of Education. Azizi was born in Tacheng to an...
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    to Yengi Hissar, south of the city. The Hui army crushed the Uighur and Kirghiz armies of the East Turkestan Republic at the Battle of Kashgar (1934), Battle...
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    Military Council of Turkestan concerning the "Bukhara question". On 28 August 1920, an army of well-disciplined and well equipped Red Army troops under the...
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    East Turkistan Republic was declared. The Hui Kuomintang 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) destroyed the army of the First East Turkestan Republic...
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    Russia, and to form a national, democratic state. The political entity bordered Russian territories to the north and west, the Turkestan Autonomy to the south...
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    Chinese Muslim Kuomintang 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) defeated the army of the First East Turkestan Republic in the 1934 Battle of Kashgar...
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    Hasan Mahsum (category East Turkestan independence activists)
    Mahsum, a native of Shule (Kunixar) County, became involved with the East Turkestan independence movement early in his life; in his late 20s, he was already...
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    The White Army (Russian: Бѣлая армія/Белая армия, romanized: Belaya armiya) or White Guard (Бѣлая гвардія/Белая гвардия, Belaya gvardiya), also referred...
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  • Tawfiq Bay (category East Turkestan independence activists)
    of the First East Turkestan Republic, who were fighting against the Chinese Muslim forces of the 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army), who were loyal...
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    (Stasi), East Germany, until 1990 Emblem of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) (Stasi) of the GDR (until 1990) Coat of arms of National People's Army of the...
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    on the basis of units of the former Soviet 40th Army of the Turkestan Military District, the First Army Corps was created, with its headquarters in Semipalatinsk...
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    new Islamic Caliphate that spanned from Soviet Central Asia to Chinese Turkestan, with support from pro-Japanese collaborationists drawn from the Kazakh...
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