Timur Beg (), also known as Timur Sijan (division general), was a Uighur rebel military leader in

Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...

in 1933. He was involved in the 1933 Battle of Kashgar and participated before in

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Rebellion (1932). He associated with the Turkic nationalist

Young Kashgar Party The Young Kashgar Party () was a Turkic nationalist Uighur political party which existed from 1933 to 1934. It helped found the First East Turkestan Republic, a separatist entity of the Republic of China. It was anti- Han and anti- Hui. The Uig ...

and appointed himself as "Timur

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". He and other Uighurs like the Bughra brothers wanted to secede from China. In August 1933 his troops were attacked by the

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36th Division of the

National Revolutionary Army The National Revolutionary Army (NRA; zh, labels=no, t=國民革命軍) served as the military arm of the Kuomintang, Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) from 1924 until 1947. From 1928, it functioned as the regular army, de facto ...

under General Ma Zhancang. Timur was shot and killed in Kashgar.

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The Soviets in Xinjiang (1911–1949) by Mark Dickens
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