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East Turkistan Kazakh Independence Movements in the 20 th Century / Dr Meryem Hakimbetween the Kazakhs located by the Kuv Ertis, Bal Ertis and Ishkıntı streamsof the Irtish River and the troops of Shing Si Sey. These battles resulted in thearrest of Kazakh leaders, including Kalel (Halil), Rahat, Shariy, Esimhan, Nezir,Zeynel, Nakishtay, Keripbay, Kumar (Omer), Kalim and Kakish, who were invitedto Urumchi upon false pretenses by the Chinese authorities in the autumn; theywere arrested as soon as they stepped off the plane. The legendary insurgenceled by Osman Batur Islamoglu, accompanied by his son Sheridiman Osmanoğlu,Keles and Suleyman Baturlar, when they were living in the mountains, beganwhen they refused to hand over their weapons to the Chinese authorities in 1941.Therefore, “the strongest and most challenging insurgence of the Goumindangcentral administration against the atrocity and oppression of the Chinese governorof East Turkistan Shing Si Sey” 10 emerged between the years of 1940 and 1950.The result of this insurgence was that Osman Batur cleared the Chinese out ofthe Altai region and became the regional governor in 1945. In the meantime, healso coordinated with the Republic of East Turkistan, which had been establishedin 1944 in Ili (Gulja), and with the leader of this republic, Alihan Tore. Theinsurgence and martial skills of Osman Batur are legendary heroic deeds recordedin world literature; his was a conquest similar to that of the great warriors ofCentral Asia, who made many conquests throughout the world.Another region where an independence movement took place in the twentiethcentury was the northern outskirts of the Tien Shan Mountains in East Turkistan.Kazakh Akbar Esbosinuli was one of the leaders and first martyrs of the insurgencewhich started in the city of Gulja (Ili) on the northern outskirts of the Tien ShanMountains on 20 November 1944; the Kazakh Seyit Korpebayuli was a martyr inthe battle for freedom of the city of Nilki. Both men should be remembered. TheRepublic of East Turkistan, which was founded under the leadership of AlihanTöre as a result of the insurgence that began in Ile in 1944, became a light of hopefor the Muslim Turkish, Uyghur and Kazakh people in East Turkistan during theindependence movement. This insurgence by the Kazakh and Uyghur people, theMuslim-Turkic peoples of East Turkistan, was supported by the representativesand military troops sent by the Soviet Union. 11 The people of East Turkistan, wholonged for independence and sovereignty, made great efforts to express their freewill and to declare their independence to the entire world. Immediately after thedeclaration of independence, the army of the Republic of East Turkistan cleared387