Mustafa Shokay

Mustafa Shokay (also spelled Shokai,Çokay, Cokay, Shokay, Mustafa Chokayev, and Mustafa Chokaev ; Kazakh: Мұстафа Шоқай, Russian: Мустафа Шокай, 1890-1941), was a Kazakh^[1][2] leader of the Kokand revolt in 1917 against the Bolsheviks that created the “Provisional Government of Autonomous Turkestan^[3].” After the revolt was crushed Shokay fled the country and lived in exile in Europe^[4]. During his time in exile Shokay became one of the leading authorities on the history of Central Asia and was an ardent Turkestani nationalist^[5]. He wrote several hundred articles about the history of Turkestan and the Turkestani nationalist movement. He later went on to help form the Turkestan Legion, a division of Turkics exiles and captured POWs from the Soviet Union who fought on behalf of Germany during the Second World War.

References

1. ^ Tomohiko Uyama, The Geography of Civilizations: Chapter 3-A Spatial Analysis of the Kazakh Intelligentsia's Activities, From the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century [1]
2. ^ Roudik, Peter (2007). The history of the Central Asian republics. Greenwood Publishing Group.
3. ^ http://www.caucaz.com/home_eng/breve_contenu.php?id=358
4. ^ http://www.caucaz.com/home_eng/breve_contenu.php?id=358
5. ^ http://www.kinokultura.com/2009/25r-shokai.shtml

• Abdulvahap Kara. “Turkistan Ateshi Mustafa Chokay'in Hayati ve Mucadelesi.” (In Turkish. English Translation of Title: The Fire of Turkistan: Mustafa Chokaev's Life and Struggle) Istanbul: DA Publications, 2002.

External links

• Mustafa Chokaev: The National Movement in Central Asia at School of History, UEA, Norwich
• Mustafa Chokaev on October 1917 and Turkestan at School of History, UEA, Norwich
• Mustafa Chokaev listing at Ludi - in Russian