Zeydin Yusup

Zeydin Yusup, also known as Zeydin Kari or Ziauddin Yusuf, was the founder and leader of the East Turkestan Islamic Party.

Zeydin Yusup
Founder and first leader of the East Turkistan Islamic Party
In office
1988 – 6 April 1990
Succeeded byHasan Mahsum
Personal details
Born1964
Xinjiang
Died(1990-04-06)6 April 1990
Baren, Xinjiang
OccupationIslamic extremist, separatist
Known forXinjiang conflict, Baren Township riot

History

Abdul Hameed, Abdul Azeez Makhdoom, and Abdul Hakeem Makhdoom launched the Islamic Party of Turkistan in 1940.[1] After being set free from prison in 1979, Abdul Hakeem instructed Hasan Mahsum and other Uyghurs in fundamentalist Islam.[2] In 1989 Zeydin Yusup started the group which was originally called East Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP).[1][3] The movement was reshuffled by Hasan Mahsum and Abudukadir Yapuquan in 1997 into its present incarnation.[4][5]

Zeydin Yusup was the mastermind behind the Baren Township riot, otherwise known as the Baren rebellion, in which he led 200 men in Baren, Akto County, in armed conflict against Chinese government forces. The uprising soon spread to nine townships across Kizilsu.[6] He was killed during the Baren Township riot on 6 April 1990.[7]

TIP's Islamic Turkistan magazine in its 3rd edition commemorated the death of its member Dia al din bin Yusuf (Zeydin Yusup).

Doğu Türkistan Bülteni Haber Ajansı mentioned a brief history of the TIP, from Zeyidin Yusuf founding it in 1988 in "East Turkestan", to its participation in the 1990 riots and insurgency, its "jihad in the path of Allah", its migration in 1996 under Hasan Mahsum to the Taliban-controlled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and its war since 2001 against the "Crusaders" for 15 years in the "Afghan jihad", to 2012, when it entered the Syrian Civil War. It released a video showing footage of its battles in Syria including at Abu Dhuhur.[8]

References
  1. Arabinda Acharya; Rohan Gunaratna; Wang Pengxin (22 June 2010). Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 53–. ISBN 978-0-230-10787-8.
  2. Arabinda Acharya; Rohan Gunaratna; Wang Pengxin (22 June 2010). Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-0-230-10787-8.
  3. J. Todd Reed; Diana Raschke (2010). The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat. ABC-CLIO. pp. 48–. ISBN 978-0-313-36540-9.
  4. "China: The Evolution of ETIM". Stratfor.com. 13 May 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  5. Rohan Gunaratna; Aviv Oreg (1 July 2015). The Global Jihad Movement. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 244–. ISBN 978-1-4422-4542-6.
  6. "Eastern Turkestan Information Bulletin Vol. 3 No. 2". caccp.FreedomsHerald.org. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  7. "Türkistan İslam Partisi mi yoksa Doğu Türkistan İslam Hareketi mi? - Nevzat Çiçek - Timetürk Makale Oku". www.Timeturk.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  8. "Türkistan İslam Cemati'nin Suriye'de ki Büyük Fetihleri – VİDEO HABER". Doğu Türkistan Bülteni Haber Ajansı. 18 October 2016.
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