East Turkestan Islamic Movement

The Islamic Party of Turkestan ( USB. Turkiston Islom partiyasi (TIP), English Turkistan Islamic Movement (TIM ) ) is an Islamist political party in Central Asia. This party was founded in the summer of 2001 and is also known under the names of Islamic Party of Turkestan Islamic Party of Turkestan and. Short forms are Turkestan Turkestan party and party. The latter term is derived from one of the predecessor organizations.

In China, there is a sub-organization of the party, the Islamic Party of East Turkestan is called and is illegal in China.

Objectives

The Islamic Party of Turkestan has the following main objectives:

  • Reintroduction of the Arabic alphabet, and the re- connection of Central Asia to the " Arab- Persian culture "
  • Reintroduction of the old literary language Chagatai, instead of today's individual languages ​​and the close matching of the individual languages ​​in this idiom.
  • Reorganization of Islam in Central Asia
  • Introduction of Sharia
  • Repatriation of all non-Muslims from the region
  • Separation of Xinjiang from China and again the formation of an " Islamic Republic of East Turkestan "
  • Establishment of a " Central Asian caliphate " as it was called for by the Hizb ut- Tahrir and the first to include the countries of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang
  • Subsequent integration of the countries of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in the Central Asian caliphate

Languages

In the Islamic Party of Turkestan today three languages ​​are used: " Tschagatei " (a strong Arab ized Uzbek for communication with members of other Turkic peoples ), Russian and Arabic. Russian and Arabic are used for communication with other Muslims of Russia, do not speak a Turkic language and serves the Arab and for the cooperation with al - Qaeda. In Xinjiang, the agency of the East Turkestan Islamic Party also used a strong Arab ized and the Uzbek adapted Uighur, which they also refer to as " Chagatai ".

History

The Islamic Party of Turkestan has many political roots. 1990, a party was founded in Central Asia, which appealed to pan-Islamic traditions and - as the party in Russia (especially in Tatarstan ) - called Islamic Renaissance Party ( PIW ). Already in 1991/92 included the party in Central Asia around 20,000 members. The head of the Uzbek PIW section, Tahir Abduhalilowitsch Yuldashev, finally got Osama bin Laden know and its agent for Uzbekistan. Both met in neighboring Afghanistan, after the Uzbek government had numerous members of the PIW from the Ferghana Valley sold.

The eponymous Turkestan Party was founded in the Ferghana Valley in 1991. She was under the strong influence of PIW and also partly in competition with it. The collaboration with the renewed Alash Party allowed the Turkestan Party to extend its activities also to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Also regional branches of the party in Tajikistan were established. Especially the Turkestan Party was considered a " point of contact " between the radical Turkestan Muslims and the al - Qaeda: The Turkestan - party mediated Muslim Volunteers of Central Asia for the "armed struggle for freedom " of the proclaimed by the Taliban " Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan." But the party has received financial support from al - Qaeda. 1998 Yuldashev returned back from Afghanistan and founded the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU ). This was under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and was also funded by the al - Qaeda. She eventually was regarded as an official arm of al - Qaeda in Uzbekistan and worked closely with the Turkestan Party. So many of the members of the IBU were also members of the Turkestan - party and vice versa. The IBU Quick had registered 10,000 members. 1998/99, the Muslim Brothers were generally forbidden in Central Asia and its members joined the regional nationalist parties at.

In August 1999, the IMU openly called for jihad in Central Asia. This call was the prohibition of the IBU result and the movement went underground. Many members went to Afghanistan and were trained there by the Taliban and al - Qaeda. With the merger of the former IBU, Turkestan Party and other various organizations was founded in June 2001, the "Islamic Turkestan Party ".

The Islamic Party of Turkestan is banned in Russia and now in almost all Central Asian states since 2006. Thus murdered members of a Kyrgyz special forces a political leader of the Islamic Turkestan Party: Rusul Akhunow. The Islamic Party of Turkestan has now limited its scope primarily to the Uzbek heartland, the Chinese Xinjiang and Tajikistan. Nevertheless, the party seems to be firmly embedded in the organizational structure of al - Qaeda. Thus, it maintains the world's upright connections separatist exiled Uyghur. Thus, the Islamic Party of Turkestan working with exile organizations whose headquarters are located in Turkey, Germany, Australia and the United States. The Islamic Party of Turkestan is supported as numerous predecessor organizations financially by al- Qaeda. Thus, the Islamic Party of Turkestan joined with other successor organizations of the PIW in 2005/ 6 in the Pakistani region of Waziristan to the "Islamic Jihad Union " ( IJU ) together that supports the Taliban and al - Qaeda. Since 2007 / 08, the IJU has also a cell in Germany.

About two weeks before the start of the Summer Olympics in China (2008 ) called for members of this party, the Chinese central government, the province of Xinjiang to grant the State independence and warned Western tourists in front of bloody attacks.

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