Elihan Tore

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Alihan Tora Sog'uniy
Marshal Alikhan Tora
Alikhan Tura
President of the Second East Turkestan Republic
In office
12 November 1944 – 16 June 1946
Personal details
Born 21 March 1884
Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan
Died 28 February 1976 (age 92)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Profession Military Leader, holds the title "Marshal", Politician, Author, Poet, Historian, Religious Leader

Elihan Tore Saghuniy (ʿAli Khan Türe or Alihan Tore Shakirjan Khoja ogli) (Uyghur: علیخان‎) Chinese: 艾力汗·吐烈; pinyin: àilìhàn·tǔliè Алихан -тюре (21 March 1884 – 28 February 1976) was president of the Second East Turkestan Republic.

Royal house - Toras / Count, Military Leaders close to King Family,

Elihan was born in Tokmok, formerly knows Balasagun, Kyrgyzstan, and in 1920 he escaped from the communists to Kashgar.

He was elected as President of the Eastern Turkestan Republic (ETR) next day after victory of Revolt in Ghulja city on 12 November 1944. Had a military rank of Marshal of Ili National Army, formed on April 8, 1945.

Elihan Tore was the only person in the ETR leadership who opposed Joseph Stalin's order to terminate offensive of Ili National Army on Urumchi and start negotiations with Kuomintang in October 1945, on the dawn of full victory of rebel forces over Kuomintang in Sinkiang (Eastern Turkestan).

On June 12, 1946, six days after signing in Urumchi of the " Peace Agreement " between representatives of Eastern Turkestan Republic and Kuomintang, that concluded the difficult eight months negotiations being started on October 14, 1945 under Soviets mediation with accordance of the offer of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to peacefully resolve " Sinkiang crisis ", he was forcibly brought back to the USSR by the KGB and confined here. The rest of his life he spent under house arrest in Tashkent, where he wrote a book Türkistan kaygısı (Turkistan Tragedy) about Xinjiang.

Works

  • Türkistan kaygısı, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, East Publishing House, 2003
  • Tarihiy Muhammadiy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Publisher: Kutlukkhan Shakirov
  • Drifter Saghuniy

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