A brand new e book by Dr. Jamil Hasanli, a historian and senior researcher on the Institute of Historic Analysis on the College of London, titled “The Sino-Soviet Struggle for the ‘Golden Apple’ (‘Kyzyl Alma’– in accordance with Turkic mythology, a utopia and beliefs that Turks ought to aspire to): Japanese Turkestan, 1930-1950” has been revealed. The monograph, printed in Azerbaijani by the Altun Kitab Publishing Home in Azerbaijan, explores the political turmoil of Japanese Turkestan through the Nineteen Thirties to Nineteen Fifties.
“The e book delves into the extraordinary and secretive battle between the Soviet Union and nationalist and communist China over Japanese Turkestan. This work because the fruits of my historic sequence on Soviet coverage, which covers a broad geographical space alongside the southern borders of the USSR, from the Turkish Straits to the Heavenly Mountains (Tian Shan), passing by means of Türkiye, Iran, and Western China (Japanese Turkestan,” Dr. Hasanli stated Turan.
Hasanli compares the nationalist insurance policies of Chiang Kai-shek in Japanese Turkestan with Stalin’s colonialist insurance policies. He utilized uncommon paperwork from the British Nationwide Archives associated to the wrestle for freedom and independence of the oppressed Uighur folks, alongside Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Tatars, and different Muslim peoples.
The historian additionally accessed paperwork from the Turkish International Coverage Archive and the Prime Minister’s Archive, which had been opened to the general public between 2019 and 2021.
The e book examines the liberation wrestle of the Muslims of Japanese Turkestan from 1931 to 1934, together with the creation of the Japanese Turkestan Islamic Republic and the revolution that led to the institution of the Japanese Turkestan Revolutionary Republic (1944-1949).
The e book is devoted to the reminiscence of three distinguished figures who performed essential roles within the nationwide wrestle of Japanese Turkestan: Masud Sabri Baykuz, Muhammad Amin Bughra, and Isa Yusuf Alptekin.
Dr. Hasanli additionally recounts the fascinating lives of the primary head of the “Gulchi” authorities (Japanese Turkestan Revolutionary Republic), Uzbek Ali Khan Tore, the Kazakh nationwide hero, Altai eagle Osman Batur, and plenty of different heroes. He attracts parallels to Seyid Ja’far Pishavari (chief of the Democratic Authorities of South Azerbaijan), who was eradicated in a automobile accident in 1947. Stalin had gathered leaders of Japanese Turkestan, together with Ahmadjan Kasimi, in a Soviet airplane that exploded underneath mysterious circumstances over Irkutsk in August 1949, simply earlier than the victory of Chinese language communists.
