Ehmetjan Qasim
Ehmetjan Qasim | |||||||||||
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ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى | |||||||||||
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of the East Turkestan Republic | |||||||||||
| In office November 1944 – 27 August 1949 | |||||||||||
| Vice Chairman of the Coalition Government of Xinjiang Province | |||||||||||
| In office 27 June 1946 – 12 August 1947 | |||||||||||
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| Born | 15 April 1914 Ghulja, Xinjiang, China | ||||||||||
| Died | 27 August 1949 (aged 35) Kabansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||
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| Profession | Politician | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 阿合買提江·哈斯木 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 阿合买提江·哈斯木 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى | ||||||||||
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Ehmetjan Qasim (Uyghur: ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى; April 15, 1914 – August 27, 1949) was a Uyghur revolutionary and statesman who held several important positions in the governments of the Second East Turkestan Republic and the Republic of China's Xinjiang Province. He notably served as the vice chairman of the Coalition Government of Xinjiang Province.
Qasim was born in Ghulja in 1914. He studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, Moscow in 1936 and was a member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Qasim was described as "Stalin's man" and as a "communist-minded progressive".