Mustafa Çokayoğlu Enver Paşa Türkistan Türkistan Millî Mücadelesi Yaş Türkistan
Enver Pasha, one of the most important figures o f t he Turkish
World, had to leave the country when the Ottoman Empire became
one of the defeated states in the World War I. In 1921, he joined the
Basmachi Movement, which was held in 1917-1924 in order to restore
independency of Turkestan, and brought new hopes to the struggle.
The Bolsheviks were very uncomfortable with Enver Pasha’s activities
carried out with the intention of raising the national awareness among
all Turks in Turkestan and gather them under a single flag.
Enver Pasha, who spent the last years of his life with the struggle in
the Caucasus and in Turkestan, became the leader of the Basmachi
Movement and fought the Russians. However, this struggle for
independence in Turkestan did not become successful. Enver Pasha,
who was defeated militarily, was killed by the Bolsheviks in 1922, and
all Turkestan was grieved by his death. The moment of Pasha’s death
entailed various speculations. This article explains Mustafa Çokay’s
impressions of Enver Pasha (1881-1922) based on the articles penned
under various titles in the mag Yaş Türkistan by Mustafa Çokayoğlu
(1890-1941), a political actor and an intellectual who was the leader
of the Turks, the Turkish Unity, and the independent Turkestan ideal(s)
and worked to announce this to the whole world. Çokay evaluated the
importance of Enver Pasha for the Turkestani, his relationship with the
Bolsheviks, the Enver Pasha perception in the Turkestani and European
press, the speculations about his death, and the reasons for his failure
in Turkestan, based on what the Turkestani who were with Enver Pasha
told and what he personally witnessed.
Mustafa Çokayoğlu Enver Pasha Turkestan Turkestani National Struggle Yach Turkestan
Birincil Dil | Türkçe |
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Bölüm | MAKALELER |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 27 Haziran 2018 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2018 |