Elihan Tore

Elihan Tore
ئەلىخان تۆرە‎
President of the East Turkestan Republic
In office 12 November 1944 – 16 June 1946
Preceded by	Republic established
Succeeded by	Ehmetjan Qasim (as President of the Ili District Council)[1][2][3][4]
Personal details
Born	21 March 1884 Tokmok, Russian Turkestan, Russian Empire (modern day Kyrgyzstan)
Died	28 February 1976 (age 91) Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (modern day Uzbekistan)
Profession	Politician, poet, scholar
Military service
Allegiance	East Turkestan Republic
Branch/service	East Turkestan National Army
Rank	Marshal
Battles/wars	Ili Rebellion (1944–1946)
Chinese name
Chinese	艾力汗·吐烈
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Àilìhàn Tǔliè
Uyghur name
Uyghur	ئەلىخان تۆرە‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Elixan Töre
Uzbek name
Uzbek	علیخون تو‌را Alixon To‘ra Алихонтўра

Elihan Tore^[a] (21 March 1884 – 28 February 1976) was an Uzbek political and religious leader who served as the president of the Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1946). He was born in Tokmok, in present-day Kyrgyzstan, and moved to Kashgar, Xinjiang, in 1920. In April 1944, Tore and eleven other Turkic leaders formed a separatist organization in Ghulja (Yining) to end Chinese Nationalist rule and establish an independent East Turkestan.^[5] On 11 November 1944, they launched the Ili Rebellion with the support of the Soviet Union.^[5]

Elihan Tore was elected as president of the Second East Turkestan Republic (ETR) the day after a successful rebellion in Ghulja on 12 November 1944. He held the military rank of marshal in the East Turkestan National Army, formed on 8 April 1945.^{[citation needed]}

Tore was the only person in the ETR leadership who opposed Joseph Stalin's order to terminate hostilities with the Chinese Nationalists and start negotiations in October 1945.^{[citation needed]}

On 16 June 1946, six days after signing a peace agreement between the ETR and Chinese Nationalists, Tore was forcibly returned to the Soviet Union by the KGB and confined there. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest in Tashkent, where he wrote a book about Xinjiang titled Türkistan kaygısı ("Turkistan Tragedy").^{[citation needed]}

• Alikhan Tura and the Uyghur People.
• Meshrep Calendar Article at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 January 2006).
• Elihan Tore in issue 1 of the Islamic Turkistan.