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 "label": {
  "ar": "مصطفى شوكاي",
  "en": "Mustafa Shokay",
  "ur": "مصطفیٰ شوكاي"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مصطفى شوكاي (1890–1941)، سياسي كازاخي ترأّس حكومة تركستان المستقلة (حكومة خوكند) في 1917–1918، وعاش منفيًا من 1921 في إسطنبول وباريس وبرلين مناصرًا لقضية تركستان، ورفض عرض النازيين قيادة الفيلق التركستاني سنة 1941، ومات في برلين في ديسمبر من العام نفسه.",
  "en": "Mustafa Shokay (1890–1941) was a Kazakh politician who headed the Turkestan Autonomy (the Kokand government) in 1917–1918, lived in exile from 1921 in Istanbul, Paris and Berlin pleading the Turkestan cause, refused the Nazi offer to lead the Turkestan Legion in 1941, and died in Berlin that December.",
  "ur": "مصطفیٰ شوكاي (1890–1941) قازق سیاست دان تھے جنہوں نے 1917–1918 میں ترکستان خودمختاری (خوکند حکومت) کی سربراہی کی، 1921 سے استنبول، پیرس اور برلن میں جلاوطنی کی زندگی گزاری اور ترکستان کے مقدمے کی وکالت کی، 1941 میں نازیوں کی ترکستان لیجن کی قیادت کی پیشکش ٹھکرا دی اور اسی دسمبر میں برلن میں وفات پائی۔"
 },
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 "regions": [
  "persia-central-asia"
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 "aliases": [],
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1890.9812658713047,
  "latest": 1941.988473411469
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1890-12-25",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born on 25 December 1890; the English, Russian and Kazakh articles and Wikidata all give this day. The birthplace is stated differently: the English article names the town of Ak-Meshit (present-day Kyzylorda), while the Russian and Kazakh articles name the village of Aulie-Tarangyl in the same district. Neither place has a museum entity, so no born_in edge is written. No Hijri pairing is attested in the sources read, so no hijri key is carried.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-shokay-en",
    "source/wikipedia-shokay-ru",
    "source/wikipedia-shokay-kk",
    "source/wikidata-shokay"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1941-12-27",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Died in a Berlin hospital on 27 December 1941; the English, Russian and Kazakh articles and Wikidata all agree on the day. The official report gave blood poisoning against a background of typhus, after his visits to prisoner-of-war camps. No place entity exists for Berlin, so no died_in edge is written. No Hijri pairing is attested in the sources read, so no hijri key is carried.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-shokay-en",
    "source/wikipedia-shokay-ru",
    "source/wikidata-shokay"
   ]
  }
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  "names": [
   {
    "value": "Mustafa Shokay",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Мұстафа Шоқай",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Mustafa Chokay",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "Mustafa Choqay",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "Мустафа Шокай",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "Mustafa Shokayev",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "Mustafa-bek Shokay-ogly",
    "kind": "alternate"
   }
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1890-12-25",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born on 25 December 1890; the English, Russian and Kazakh articles and Wikidata all give this day. The birthplace is stated differently: the English article names the town of Ak-Meshit (present-day Kyzylorda), while the Russian and Kazakh articles name the village of Aulie-Tarangyl in the same district. Neither place has a museum entity, so no born_in edge is written. No Hijri pairing is attested in the sources read, so no hijri key is carried.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-shokay-en",
    "source/wikipedia-shokay-ru",
    "source/wikipedia-shokay-kk",
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   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "1941-12-27",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Died in a Berlin hospital on 27 December 1941; the English, Russian and Kazakh articles and Wikidata all agree on the day. The official report gave blood poisoning against a background of typhus, after his visits to prisoner-of-war camps. No place entity exists for Berlin, so no died_in edge is written. No Hijri pairing is attested in the sources read, so no hijri key is carried.",
   "sources": [
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  },
  "roles": [
   "politician",
   "activist",
   "writer"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "FLAGGED: the English article's text attests him personally, calling him a practicing Muslim, but names no school; the Sunni specification rests on one infobox family — the Russian and Kazakh articles' infoboxes both give his religion as Islam of the Sunni persuasion, two carriers of one infobox family, neither referenced to any text. His birth into a Muslim family and his childhood Qur'an instruction by a village mullah are background and formation, and Wikidata's religion value is Islam in general, which does not corroborate the branch. One family short of the two-source bar, the segment is unknown, with the Sunni infobox reading preserved here.",
    "sources": [
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  "status": {
   "review": "published"
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  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English, Russian and Kazakh Wikipedia articles on Mustafa Shokay and Wikidata item Q2996747, each read at a recorded revision; existence checked both ways before building — name fragments (shokay, shoqay, chokay, chokaev) and slug variants across data/person found no person file, and Q2996747, grounded through the English article's page properties and confirmed through the Russian and Kazakh articles', matched no existing record. An allied_with edge to person/alikhan-bukeikhanov is written for the attested Duma-faction recommendation and joint Alash leadership, and a lived_in edge to place/istanbul for his attested 1921 residence there. No successor_of or predecessor edges for the Turkestan Autonomy premiership are written: neither Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev nor Kichik Ergash has a record. No born_in or died_in edge is written: no place entity exists for Ak-Meshit, Aulie-Tarangyl or Berlin.",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نشأته",
     "markdown": "وُلد في 25 ديسمبر 1890م؛ وتختلف المصادر في مسقط رأسه: تسمّي المقالة الإنجليزية بلدة آق مسجد (قيزيلوردا اليوم)، وتسمّي المقالتان الروسية والكازاخية قرية أوليه ترانغيل في المنطقة نفسها {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-kk}. نشأ في أسرة مسلمة من قبچاق سيحون، وتعلّم القرآن على ملا القرية، ودرس في طشقند، وتخرّج في قانون جامعة سانت بطرسبرغ سنة 1917م {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}. وبتوصية من عليخان بوكيخانوف صار سكرتير الكتلة الإسلامية في الدوما ومترجمها {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "حكومة تركستان المستقلة",
     "markdown": "بعد ثورة فبراير عمل في اللجنة التركستانية وحركة ألاش؛ وحين أعلن المؤتمر الإسلامي الإقليمي الرابع في خوكند قيام تركستان المستقلة في نوفمبر 1917م، تولّى رئاسة حكومتها بعد محمدجان تينيشباييف وبقي فيها حتى دمّر البلاشفة الحكم الذاتي في فبراير 1918م {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru}. ثم عمل مع سلطات ألاش في سيمي، وفرّ جنوبًا، وشارك في سيم القوقاز وحكومته في تفليس {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "منفاه",
     "markdown": "حين سقطت القوقاز في فبراير 1921م هاجر إلى إسطنبول وكتب في التايمز والصحافة التركية، وانتقل إلى باريس في صيف العام نفسه {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}. وأسّس سنة 1929م في برلين مجلة «ياش تركستان»، ونشر في باريس في «مللي تركستان» وعمل في حركة بروميثيوس المناصرة لشعوب الاتحاد السوفييتي {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru}. وبعد الغزو الألماني للاتحاد السوفييتي سنة 1941م اصطُحب لتفقّد معسكرات الأسرى وضُغط عليه لقيادة الفيلق التركستاني فرفض، وكتب إلى برلين أنه لا يستطيع قيادة مثل هذا التشكيل {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفاته",
     "markdown": "مات في مستشفى ببرلين في 27 ديسمبر 1941م؛ وذكر التقرير الرسمي تسمّم الدم على خلفية تيفوس أصيب به في المعسكرات، وتذهب بعض الروايات إلى أنه سُمّم {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-kk}. لا توجد طبعة عربية لمقالته، فكُتب هذا النص العربي من المصادر المتاحة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقيدته",
     "markdown": "تصفه المقالة الإنجليزية في متنها بأنه مسلم ممارس، لكنها لا تسمّي مدرسة؛ والتخصيص السني يستند إلى صندوقَي المعلومات في المقالتين الروسية والكازاخية — وهما عائلة صندوق واحدة لا تُسند إلى نص — وقيمة الدين في ويكي بيانات هي الإسلام عمومًا {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-kk} {cite:wikidata-shokay}. لذلك سُجّلت عقيدته غير معروفة، موسومة بعلم، مع حفظ قراءة الصندوق في ملاحظة السجل."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`.\n- Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact."
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
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   "updated": "2026-10-27"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life",
     "markdown": "He was born on 25 December 1890; the sources differ on the birthplace, the English article naming the town of Ak-Meshit (present-day Kyzylorda) and the Russian and Kazakh articles the village of Aulie-Tarangyl in the same district {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-kk}. Born into a Muslim family of the Syr Darya Kipchaks, he was taught the Qur'an by a village mullah, studied in Tashkent, and graduated in law from St Petersburg University in 1917 {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}. On Alikhan Bukeikhanov's recommendation he became secretary and translator of the Muslim faction in the State Duma {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Turkestan Autonomy",
     "markdown": "After the February Revolution he worked in the Turkestan Committee and the Alash movement; when the Fourth Extraordinary Regional Muslim Congress at Kokand proclaimed the Turkestan Autonomy in November 1917, he became its head of government after Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev, and held the post until the Bolsheviks destroyed the autonomy in February 1918 {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru}. He then worked with the Alash authorities in Semey, fled south, and took part in the Transcaucasian Seim and government at Tiflis {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Exile",
     "markdown": "When Transcaucasia fell in February 1921 he emigrated to Istanbul, wrote for The Times and the Turkish press, and moved to Paris that summer {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}. In 1929 he founded the journal Yash Turkestan in Berlin, and in Paris he published in Millî Türkistan and worked with the Prometheus movement for the peoples of the USSR {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru}. After the German invasion of the USSR in 1941 he was taken to inspect prisoner-of-war camps and pressed to head the Turkestan Legion; he refused, and wrote to Berlin that he could not command such a formation {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "He died in a Berlin hospital on 27 December 1941; the official report gave blood poisoning against a background of typhus contracted in the camps, and some accounts hold that he was poisoned {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-kk}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Faith",
     "markdown": "The English article's text calls him a practicing Muslim, but names no school; the Sunni specification rests on the Russian and Kazakh articles' infoboxes — infobox of the Sunni persuasion in both — which are one infobox family and are referenced to no text, and Wikidata's religion value is Islam in general {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-kk} {cite:wikidata-shokay}. His faith segment is therefore recorded as unknown, flagged, with the infobox reading preserved in the record's note."
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    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`.\n- Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact."
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    "id": "person/mustafa-shokay",
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی",
     "markdown": "وہ 25 دسمبر 1890 کو پیدا ہوئے؛ جائے پیدائش میں ماخذ مختلف ہیں: انگریزی مضمون آق مشیت (موجودہ قیزیلوردا) کی بستی بتاتا ہے، جبکہ روسی اور قازق مضامین اسی ضلع کا گاؤں اولیے ترانگل بتاتے ہیں {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-kk}۔ سیردریا کے قبچاق مسلم گھرانے میں پیدا ہوئے، گاؤں کے ملا سے قرآن سیکھا، طشقند میں تعلیم پائی اور 1917 میں سینٹ پیٹرزبرگ یونیورسٹی سے قانون میں فراغت حاصل کی {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}۔ علی خان بوکیخانوف کی سفارش پر وہ ریاستی ڈوما کے مسلم دھڑے کے سیکرٹری اور مترجم بنے {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ترکستان خودمختاری",
     "markdown": "فروری انقلاب کے بعد وہ ترکستان کمیٹی اور علاش تحریک میں سرگرم رہے؛ نومبر 1917 میں خوکند کی چوتھی علاقائی مسلم کانگریس نے ترکستان خودمختاری کا اعلان کیا تو محمد جان تینیشپائیف کے بعد وہ اس کی حکومت کے سربراہ بنے اور فروری 1918 میں بالشویکوں کے خاتمے تک اس عہدے پر رہے {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru}۔ پھر سمے میں علاش حکام کے ساتھ کام کیا، جنوب کی طرف فرار ہوئے اور طفلس میں ماورائے قفقاز کی حکومت میں شریک رہے {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جلاوطنی",
     "markdown": "فروری 1921 میں ماورائے قفقاز کے زوال پر وہ استنبول چلے گئے، ٹائمز اور ترک اخبارات میں لکھا، اور اسی موسمِ گرما میں پیرس منتقل ہو گئے {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}۔ 1929 میں برلن سے رسالہ «یاش ترکستان» جاری کیا اور پیرس میں «ملی ترکستان» میں لکھتے اور پرومیتھیس تحریک سے وابستہ رہے {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru}۔ 1941 میں جرمن حملے کے بعد انہیں جنگی قیدیوں کے کیمپوں کے معائنے پر لے جایا گیا اور ترکستان لیجن کی قیادت کے لیے دباؤ ڈالا گیا؛ انہوں نے انکار کر دیا اور برلن کو لکھا کہ وہ ایسی فورس کی کمان نہیں کر سکتے {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "27 دسمبر 1941 کو برلن کے ایک اسپتال میں وفات پائی؛ سرکاری رپورٹ کیمپوں سے لگے ٹائیفس کی بنیاد پر خون کی زہرآلودگی بتاتی ہے، اور بعض روایات انہیں زہر دیا گیا مانتی ہیں {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-kk}۔ ان کے مضمون کا کوئی اردو نسخہ موجود نہیں، اس لیے یہ اردو متن دستیاب ماخذوں سے لکھا گیا ہے۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عقیدہ",
     "markdown": "انگریزی مضمون کا متن انہیں عامل مسلمان کہتا ہے مگر کوئی مکتب نہیں بتاتا؛ سنی تخصیص روسی اور قازق مضامین کے انفوباکسوں پر مبنی ہے — دونوں ایک ہی انفوباکس خاندان ہیں اور کسی متن سے مستند نہیں — اور ویکی ڈیٹا کی مذہب قدر عمومی اسلام ہے {cite:wikipedia-shokay-en} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-ru} {cite:wikipedia-shokay-kk} {cite:wikidata-shokay}۔ اس لیے ان کا عقیدہ نامعلوم درج ہے، نشان زدہ، اور انفوباکس قرأت ریکارڈ کے نوٹ میں محفوظ ہے۔"
    },
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