Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki
First Prime Minister of the Turkish Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkistan, Uyghur statesman, politician,philosopher, scholar, and religious leader
Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki (Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki) (1883 – June 1934), a uighur, was born in Kashgar, Xinjiang China. Between November 12, 1933 and February 6, 1934 he served the short-lived Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan or Republic of Uyghurstan (Uyghurstan Jumhuriyiti) as Prime Minister. Seat of the Government was in Kashgar.
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edit- "The Tungans, more than the Han, are the enemy of our people. Today our people are already free from the oppression of the Han, but still continue under Tungan subjugation. We must still fear the Han, but cannot not fear the Tungans also. The reason we must be careful to guard against the Tungans, we must intensely oppose, cannot afford to be polite. Since the Tungans have compelled us, we must be this way. Yellow Han people have not the slightest thing to do with Eastern Turkestan. Black Tungans also do not have this connection. Eastern Turkestan belongs to the people of Eastern Turkestan. There is no need for foreigners to come be our fathers and mothers...From now on we do not need to use foreigners language, or their names, their customs, habits, attitudes, written language, etc. We must also overthrow and drive foreigners from our boundaries forever. The colors yellow and black are foul. They have dirtied our land for too long. So now it is absolutely necessary to clean out this filth. Take down the yellow and black barbarians! Long live Eastern Turkestan!"
- Zhang, Xinjiang Fengbao Qishinian [Xinjiang in Tumult for Seventy Years], 3393-4.
THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF EASTERN TURKESTAN AND THE FORMATION OF MODERN UYGHUR IDENTITY IN XINJIANG, by JOY R. LEE [1]
