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The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) [note 1] is an Uyghur Islamist militant organization founded in Pakistan by Hasan Mahsum. Its stated goals are to establish an Islamic state in Xinjiang and Central Asia. [7] The Chinese government asserts that the TIP is synonymous with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). ETIM has been described by ...
Both were highlighted in China's official report on East Turkestan terrorists of January 2002. [2] The organization operates primarily in Xinjiang, China, but operates throughout Central Asia and in Pakistan. The ETLO is allied with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and the Taliban.
Widely believed to have links to Taliban and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. [40] Committee for National Revolution – Was a Turkic nationalist Uyghur party which existed in 1932–1934. It helped found the First East Turkestan Republic. Young Kashgar Party – Was a Turkic nationalist Uyghur party which existed from 1933 to 1934.
East Turkestan is a founding member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) formed in 1991, where it was represented initially by the East Turkistan National Congress and later by the World Uyghur Congress post 2004. [5] In September 2004, the East Turkistan Government in Exile was established in Washington, D.C.
ETIM may refer to: East Turkestan independence movement, a political movement seeking an independent East Turkestan; Turkistan Islamic Party, formerly known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, an Islamic extremist organization founded in Western China; ETIM (standard), a classification system for electrical and electronic products
East Turkestan independence movement — based in the Islamic East Turkestan geopolitical region of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located in northwestern China v t
The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突, Pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), [12] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
Flag of the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria used in 2017. Following the Fall of the Assad regime the group has returned to using their blue flag [18]. TIP (ETIM) sent the "Turkistan Brigade" (Katibat Turkistani), also known as the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria to take part in the Syrian Civil War, most noticeably in the 2015 Jisr al-Shughur offensive.