Hoja-Niyaz

Politician

1889 – 1941

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Who was Hoja-Niyaz?

Hoja Niyaz Haji also Xoja Niyaz Haji was a Uyghur independence movement leader who led several rebellions in Xinjiang against the Kumul Khanate, the Chinese governor Jin Shuren, and later the Hui warlord Ma Chung-ying. He is best remembered as the first and only president of the short-lived Turkish Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan from early 1933 until the republic's defeat in 1934.

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Born
1889
Hami City
Religion
  • Islam
Ethnicity
  • Uyghur people
Nationality
  • Taiwan
Died
1941
Ürümqi

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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