Turkistan Islamic Party | |
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تۈركىستان ئىسلام پارتىيىسى | |
Leaders |
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Governing body | Shura Council |
Dates of operation | 1997–present |
Group(s) | Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria[4] |
Motives | An Islamic state in Xinjiang and the entire Central Asia, eventually Caliphate[5] |
Headquarters | Idlib Governorate, Syria (largest operation base) |
Active regions | (2014–2016) |
Ideology | Decolonization Anti-Zionism Sunni Islamism Islamic fundamentalism Pan-Islamism Separatism |
Size | 1,000 in Afghanistan (2022 UN report)[10]
4,000 in Syria |
Allies |
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Opponents | State Opponents
Non-state Opponents Islamic State - Khorasan Province[15] |
Battles and wars | |
Designated as a terrorist group by |
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 突厥斯坦伊斯兰党 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 突厥斯坦伊斯蘭黨 | ||||||
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Uyghur name | |||||||
Uyghur | تۈركىستان ئىسلام پارتىيىسى | ||||||
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History of Xinjiang |
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The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP)[note 1] is a Uyghur Islamic extremist organization founded in Pakistan by Hasan Mahsum. Its stated goals are to establish an Islamic state in Xinjiang and Central Asia.[5]
The Chinese government asserts that the TIP is synonymous with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). ETIM has been described by scholars as demanding total independence and supporting or being indifferent to more radical methods driven by religious and ethnic motives.[17][18]
Influenced by the success of the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviets in the Soviet–Afghan War, the ETIP (later become known as TIP in 2001) was established in September 1997 by Hasan Mahsum in Pakistan. After 11 September 2001, the Chinese regime strove to include its repression of Uyghur opposition within the international dynamic of the struggle against Islamic terrorist networks.[19] Their slogans contained anti-Communist rhetoric and calls for uniting Turks, indicating a movement akin to Islamic pan-Turkism historically congruent with southern Xinjiang rather than pure, radical Salafi jihadism or religious extremism. The revolt lasted several days and was put down by the Chinese government, which deployed significant forces to suppress the insurrection. The Chinese government viewed them as a jihadist movement akin to the mujahideen in Afghanistan across the border which gave birth to more radical movements such as the Party of Allah and the Islamic Movement of East Turkistan.[19]
The Syrian branch of the TIP is active in the Syrian civil war and are largely grouped in Idlib.[20][14]
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