Alasch - Party of National Independence

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Flag of the radical nationalist Alash Party (1990-1994)

The Alash Party of National Independence was a radical , nationalist Islamic party that existed between 1990 and 1994 in the states of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan .

history

As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union , on 14./15. April 1990 on a founding congress in Almaty nationalist Kazakhs and Kyrgyz to a Muslim - national party together. This founding congress had around 200 participants, mainly from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan . The new party was now called "Alasch - Party of National Independence", saw itself in the "tradition of the old Alasch party " and called for the unification of all areas inhabited by Kazakhs and Kyrgyz people. The party organ was the newspaper "Alasch", which was published since May 1990.

This Alash party was founded primarily in response to the nationalist Russian parties of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The chairman was the Kazakh Sarkytbek Imashev.

This party had four main goals:

  1. Renewal of Islam in Central Asia and the associated abolition of the Cyrillic writing systems and reintroduction of the Arabic script for all Central Asian languages.
  2. Re-establishment of the " Alasch Orda State " and the direct annexation of the territory claimed by the former " Kokander Autonomy " to this state.
  3. " Resettlement " of all ethnicities who could not have any Turkic origin (especially Russians , Ukrainians and the larger minorities would have been affected. Smaller minorities were intended to be assimilated in the long term .)
  4. Creation of the " United States of Turkestan ", which would have encompassed all Turkic states and areas including Tajikistan .

The Alash Party also worked closely with the right-wing extremist and Islamic fundamentalist " Turkestan Party ", founded in 1991 . Like the new Alash party, the latter wanted pan- Turkish and Muslim reflection for all Turkic peoples of Central Asia and the “repatriation” of all non-Muslims from the Central Asian states inhabited by Turkic peoples.

So both organizations pursued the same nationalist goals.

Ban on party

As early as December 1991, shortly after the party began to cooperate with the Turkestan party , riots took place in Almaty. As a result, numerous members were arrested. The political leaders fled to Turkic-speaking countries, from where they continued to operate. By 1992 the Alash party, which was not registered as such, had around 3,000 members, around 30 of whom lived in the city of Almaty . But from 1993 all political activities of the party in Kazakhstan were stopped. After numerous members insulted the Kazakh President on several occasions, the Alash Party was banned by the Kazakh government in 1994 as a " fascistoid ". The members of the now banned Alash Party joined other parties in Kazakhstan, where they now primarily form the “militant right wing” of these parties. The Alash Party no longer plays a political role in Kyrgyzstan either.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Roland Götz and Uwe Halbach: Political Lexicon GUS , p. 119
  2. ^ Center for Turkish Studies (ed.): Current situation in the Turkic republics , p. 20

literature

  • Roland Götz, Uwe Halbach : Political Lexicon GUS , Beck'sche Reihe, Verlag CH Beck Munich (1992), ISBN 3-406-35173-5
  • Center for Turkish Studies (Ed.): Current Situation in the Turk Republics - Domestic Policy, Security Policy, Economy, Environment and Population , Working Paper 14, Önel-Verlag Essen, June 1994