Kazakhstan History

Mustafa Shokay

Mustafa Shokay (also spelled Shokai,Çokay, Cokay, Shokay, Mustafa Chokayev, and Mustafa Chokaev ; Kazakh: Мұстафа Шоқай, Russian: Мустафа Шокай, 1890-1941), was a leader of the Kokand revolt in 1917 against the Bolsheviks that created the “Provisional Government of Autonomous Turkestan.” After the revolt was crushed Chokayev fled the country and lived in exile in Europe. During his time in exile Chokaev became one of the leading authorities on the history of Central Asia and was an ardent Turkestani nationalist. He wrote several hundred articles about the history of Turkestan and the Turkestani nationalist movement He later went on to help form the Turkestan Legion, a division of Muslims exiles and captured POWs from the Soviet Union who fought on behalf of Germany during the Second World War.

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