Elihan Tore

Alihan Tora Sog'uniy
Alikhan Tura
President of the Second East Turkestan Republic
In office 12 November 1944 – 16 June 1946
Succeeded by	Ehmetjan Qasim
Personal details
Born	21 March 1884 Tokmok, Russian Turkestan, Russian Empire
Died	28 February 1976 (age 92) Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Profession	Marshal of Ili National Army, Politician, Author, Poet, Historian, Head of Religious Group

Elihan Tore Saghuniy (ʿAli Khan Türe or Alihan Tore Shakirjan Khoja ogli) (Uyghur: علیخان‎) Chinese: 艾力汗·吐烈; pinyin: Àilìhàn·Tǔliè Алихан -тюре (21 March 1884 – 28 February 1976) was president of the Second East Turkestan Republic.

Elihan Tore was born in Tokmok, formerly known as Balasagun, Kyrgyzstan, and in 1920 he escaped from the Soviet Union to Kashgar in Xinjiang, China.

In April 1944, Elihan Tore along with Abdulkerim Abbas and ten others formed a liberation organization in Ghulja (Yining) to free Xinjiang of Chinese Nationalist rule. On November 11, 1944, they launched the Ili Rebellion with the support of the Soviet Union.

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