Turkestan place
also: East Turkestan, Turkistan, Afghan Turkestan, Russian Turkestan
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▶ 1:57
How many people have ever even heard of Turkestan? Now, I came across several spellings, some with an I, some with an E. I went with the I. But Turkestan, actually, in a map that Cousinet found back in the day, like in the early 1900s, was …
▶ 3:25
Let's just go through this. So it first talks about, it's also in some places called East Turkestan, which current day is Xinjiang province of China. And you will recognize it as the province that has...…
▶ 4:23
And when I went to look at this East Turkestan, because what they posted was a ceremony designating a government in exile of East Turkestan. And I'm like, well, that's crazy. I've never even heard of East Turkestan. How can you have a gover…
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Just kind of, again, makes the hair on the back of your neck when you look at it through Gladio glasses go, what's going on? All right. So primarily it's Turk people, like from a Turkish kind of standpoint. But it also includes people from …
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Let's see, what else? Kyrgyzstan and the Uyghurs. And the region hosts Russian and Tajikistan Iranian minorities as well. So it is kind of like a melting pot of a whole bunch of different cultures. Turkestan.…
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was subdivided into Afghan Turkestan, Russian Turkestan, and East Turkestan, which East Turkestan is actually the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. Now, China, just in case you don't know, when all of this went down, China granted Xinjiang…
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have spread further into Eurasia, forming the Turk nations of Turkey, some in Russia, some in Crimea, some in Ukraine, and that even Russia has a sizable Turk minority. So you can, the ones that it says Turkestan originally was,…
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Prussian in origin and that it has never referred to a single nation state. People that do geography for a living has basically described it as a Tauric area, like geographically, like the Americas or something like that, that it never...…
▶ 10:37
at many of these areas that have become a nexus for strategy of tension. There does seem to be a pattern there that I've noticed. So on the conquest of Central Asia in the 19th century, the Russians took the city of Turkestan. It was a city…
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And that city was located in Kazakhstan, modern-day Kazakhstan. This happened in 1864. They thought the entire area was named Turkestan, not just the city. So they began calling the geographical region Turkestan. That was Russia. In 1969, t…
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Kazakhstan, which gave a name. It was basically a slave contract selling somebody. And it shows that the name Turkestan was used and it referred to the lands to the east and north of…
▶ 12:04
a place called Sardaria, which would coincide with it being more like a city as opposed to an actual interior or entire area. That document is estimated to be like in the 600 timeframe, like 639, the contract that they found. So just giving…
▶ 12:36
This goes back, as far as possession goes, to the 2nd century BC with the Han Empire, the Chinese rulers over the eastern Central Asia calling that area Turkestan. There was Arab forces in the 8th century.…
▶ 14:00
But there has been some more recent history that I think plays right into what we've been talking about. The Kashgar region, in November 12, 1933, Uyghur separatists declared the short-lived and self-proclaimed East Turkestan Republic.…
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using the term East Turkestan to emphasize the state's break from China and a new anti-China orientation. Now, 1933 is very important because this is in between World War I and World War II, when there was a lot of effort being made to set …
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They even, in the three years that they existed as such, published a constitution which mandated Sharia law. And then there was a political entity called the East Turkish Republic, ETR. And no one basically recognized it as its own separate…
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and had no idea how to pronounce it. So the Chinese actually worked with the Soviet Union in order to make that happen. So they were working and basically reestablished Chinese control over that area. So then immediately after World War II …
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through 1946 for two years, they tried again and created the second East Turkestan Republic. Eventually, the Soviet Union exploited this change in power and was kind of looking interestingly at this piece of property. But here's where it go…
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their version of the East Turkestan Republic and wanted sovereignty over it. And so there's some kind of quibbling back and forth. But in 1946, the Soviet Union withdrew its support and basically said, China, you can have it. And so at the …
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Xinjiang divided between KMT forces and the East Turkestan Republic secessionist. The communistic leadership persuaded both governments to surrender and accept the secession of the People's Republic of China government and negotiated the es…
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a cohesive group of people. So, concurrently with the Cultural Revolution, the revolution's campaign against local nationalism, the government had come to associate the term East Turkestan with Uyghur separatism, and for very important reas…
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Keep in mind the dates I use, 1955. 1955 is at the height of the establishment of Operation Gladio and the destabilization and the installation of fascist leadership. So while that NATO was going around causing havoc everywhere,…
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What happened to my internet? That one is on the page Turkistan. If you guys could pull that up and post that, because that's on it. I'm on it. Okay, thank you. So that's the old one that I talked about at the very beginning. If you look at…
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And it shows you in correlation, you see this tiny little thing to the south of Turkestan that was actually Afghanistan. It was very small. And what you'll notice is there's no Pakistan, right? Because they stole land from Afghanistan and I…
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establishing kind of a pattern of operations for this international syndicate. And I found a... Go ahead, cousin. Did you want to say something? No? You're expecting me to be able to multitask. I apologize. Just so people are aware, I know …