İsa Yusuf Alptekin
İsa Yusuf Alptekin ( Uighur ئەيسا يۈسۈپ ئالپتېكىن ʿĪsa Yūsuf Alp-Tekin ; * 1901 in Yengisar , Kashgar , China ; † December 17, 1995 in Istanbul , Turkey ), known in China as Ai Sha ( Chinese 艾沙伯克 àishābókè ), was a Uyghur politician who lived in exile from 1949 and from there led the Uyghur independence movement until his death . In 1933 and 1934 he was General Secretary of the National Assembly of the short-lived and unstable " Islamic Republic of East Turkestan ". At the same time he represented the republic during its existence as a representative in Nanjing .
After he first sought refuge in the Indian part of Kashmir in 1949 , he fled to Turkey in 1954 . It was there that he finally obtained Turkish citizenship . Alptekin died on December 17, 1995 in Istanbul at the age of 94. About a million people took part in the solemn funeral procession.
İsa Alptekin is the father of the exiled politician Erkin Alptekin, who lives in Germany .
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- Ali Kayıkçı: Unutulan Vatan: Turkistan ve İsa Yusuf Alptekin Destanı. Denge Gazetesi, March 14, 2008, accessed June 28, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alptekin, İsa Yusuf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uighur politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yengisar near Kashgar |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1995 |
| Place of death | Istanbul |