1. Isa Yusuf Alptekin was an Uyghur politician who served in the Chinese Nationalist government and opposed both the First East Turkistan Republic and the Second East Turkestan Republic.
11 Facts About Isa Alptekin
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When Xinjiang came under Chinese communist control in 1949, Alptekin went into exile and became an ultra-nationalist and pan-Turkic separatist.
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Isa Alptekin was born in 1901 in Yengisar County, Kashgar, Qing dynasty.
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In 1932, Isa Alptekin was sent to Nanjing and was appointed as an advisor in the Republic of China's Defense Ministry's Border Affairs Department.
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Isa Alptekin opposed the First East Turkestan Republic which existed in Kashgar from November 12,1933 to April 16,1934.
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Isa Alptekin stayed in Nanjing and then fled to Chongqing with the Chinese government when the Empire of Japan invaded.
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Isa Alptekin lived there along with several other Uyghurs such as Masud Sabri.
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Isa Alptekin returned to Xinjiang, and he opposed the Second East Turkestan Republic in northern Xinjiang during the Ili Rebellion, claiming that it was a Soviet Communist puppet state of Stalin.
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Isa Alptekin asked Ma Bufang on whether Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese government would allow an independent Islamic state in southern Xinjiang to counter the Communists and the Soviet-backed Second East Turkestan Republic, but Ma Bufang did not bother with this request.
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Isa Alptekin fled after the Communist takeover of Xinjiang through the Himalayas, reaching Ladakh in Indian-controlled Kashmir and going into exile in Turkey.
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Isa Alptekin voiced anti-Armenian rhetoric while he was in Turkey and claimed that innocent Turkish Muslims were massacred by Armenians.