Elihan Tore

{{Short description|President of the Second East Turkestan Republic}}

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{{Infobox Politician

| name = Elihan Tore

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| office = President of the East Turkestan Republic

| term_start = 12 November 1944

| term_end = 16 June 1946

| predecessor = Republic established

| successor = Ehmetjan Qasim (as President of the Ili District Council){{cite book|author=王柯|title=《東突厥斯坦獨立運動: 1930年代至1940年代》|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-oqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA331|date=2013-01-15|publisher=香港中文大學出版社|isbn=978-962-996-500-6|page=第331頁}}劉學銚，新疆史論，知書房，2013年2月，{{ISBN|978-986-5870-51-5}}，第192頁王柯，《東突厥斯坦獨立運動: 1930年代至1940年代》，香港中文大學出版社，2013年，{{ISBN|978-962-996-500-6}}，第158頁杜榮坤、紀大椿、任一飛、劉文遠，新疆三區革命史鑑，中國社會科學出版社，第161頁

| birth_date = 21 March 1884

| birth_place = Tokmok, Russian Turkestan, Russian Empire (modern day Kyrgyzstan)

| death_date = 28 February 1976 (age 91)

| death_place = Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (modern day Uzbekistan)

| profession = Politician, poet, scholar

| rank = Marshal of National Army

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Elihan Tore ({{langx|ug|ئەلىخان تۆرە}}; {{lang-zh|c=艾力汗·吐烈}}; 21 March 1884 – 28 February 1976) was the president of the Second East Turkestan Republic. He was born in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, and in 1920 he fled from the Soviet Union to Kashgar in Xinjiang, China. In April 1944, Tore, eleven other Turkic leaders formed a separatist organization in Ghulja (Yining) to end Chinese Nationalist rule and establish an independent East Turkestan.(Chinese) [http://www.bianjiang.cass.cn/news/728126.htm 动荡之源：新疆三区革命的国际背景 《西域研究》 2013 No. 3] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140830181931/http://www.bianjiang.cass.cn/news/728126.htm |date=30 August 2014 }} 10 January 2014 On 11 November 1944, they launched the Ili Rebellion with the support of the Soviet Union.