Ospan Batyr

Ospan Batyr (Islambayuly)
Born	1899 Koktokay County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, Qing China
Died	(1951-04-29)April 29, 1951 (aged 51–52) Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China
Allegiance	East Turkestan Republic  Mongolian People's Republic  Republic of China
Battles/wars	Ili Rebellion Battle of Baitag Bogd Chinese Civil War Kuomintang Islamic Insurgency in China (1950–1958)

Ospan Islambayuly Batyr (Kazakh: Оспан батыр, Ospan Batır, وسپان باتىر; Chinese: 烏斯滿·巴圖爾; sometimes spelled as Uthmān/Osman Bātūr, Osman Batir or Osman Bahadur;^[1] 1899 – April 29, 1951), the son of Islambay, was born in Koktokay County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

Biography[]

He was born in 1899 in Öngdirkara in the Köktogay region of Altay as Osman Islamuly, and "Batur" is an honorific title that stands for 'brave'. He is the son of İslâm Bey, a farmer of middle class from Altay Kazakhs. The nomadic kazakh grew up living his life. Ospan Batyr, who was a good rider and a master hunter before the age of 10, learned the fine arts of martial arts from Böke Batur, a Kazakh, with whom he entered his service at the age of 12. Boke Boke Baturin Baturin then be defeated by the Chinese over Tibet after the decapitation of captured while trying to reach Turkey birthplace at the age of 40 were engaged in farming. In 1940, as the Chinese administration increased the pressure, he took his gun and went to the mountain alone. He continued the struggle he started alone until his execution in Urumqi on 29 April 1951.

Osman began his struggle against the Chinese and Russians in 1941, aimed to liberate all Altai lands and East Turkestan from the Chinese and Russians. During World War II, with the increasing pressure on the Turks in East Turkestan, the reaction movements gained strength and prepared the ground for the rise of Osman Batur.

Osman Batur, who started to clean the Altays from the Chinese, seemed to have reached his goal in 1943. With a ceremony held in Bulgun on July 22, 1943, the inn of Osman Batur Altay Kazakhs was declared. By 1945, except for a few cities in East Turkestan, the control was taken by the Turks. When the situation became intolerable and dangerous for the Chinese, the Chinese armies carried out harsh and intense operations in the region. Although Osman Batur, who was removed from Targabatay and Altays, started the fight with thirty thousand people, by 1950 this number was approximately four thousand. There was also a struggle between Alibek Hakim and his comrades.

Osman Batur, who was trapped in Kanambal in 1951, was captured and taken to Urumqi.

In Xinjiang he led the Kazakh people to fight against PRC. He was captured in Hami (Eastern Xinjiang), circulated and executed in Urumqi on April 29, 1951, after resisting the Communist takeover. After his death many of his followers fled over the Himalayan mountains. Afterwards they were airlifted to Turkey, where they then lived.

See also[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Osman Batur.

• Kazakh exodus from Xinjiang

Sources[]

• Godfrey Lias, Kazak Exodus, London: Evan Brothers Limited (1956)
• Justin Jacobs, "The many deaths of a Kazak unaligned", American Historical Review 115.5 (2010), pp. 1291–1314.
• Linda K. Benson and  [sv], China's Last Nomads: The History and Culture of China's Kazaks, New York: M.E. Sharpe (1998), pp. 72–87.
• Halife Altay, Anayurttan Anadoluʹya, Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı, 1981 (Turkish)
• Halife Altay, Kazak Türklerine aid şecere, Istanbul, 1997 (Turkish)
• Gülçin Çandarlıoğlu, Özgürlük Yolu, Nurgocay Batur'un Anılarıyla Osman Batur, Istanbul: Doğu Kütüphanesi, 2006 (Turkish)
• Zordun Sabir, Anayurt, Almaty: Nash Mir, 2006 (Uyghur)
• Hızır Bek Gayretullah, Osman Batur, (Turkish)
• Hızır Bek Gayretullah, Altaylarda Kanlı Günler, 1977 (Turkish)

This China-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t