Ehmetjan Qasimi
Ehmetjan Qasimi | |||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
| Died | 27 August 1949 (aged 35) | ||||||||||
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| Profession | Politician | ||||||||||
| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى | ||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 阿合买提江·哈斯木 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 阿合買提江·哈斯木 | ||||||||||
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Ehmetjan Qasimi (15 April 1914 – 27 August 1949) was a Uyghur politician and revolutionary 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.
Ehmetjan 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. Ehmetjan was described as "Stalin's man", though the evidence for this description is circumstantial.