Mustafa Shokay

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 ^{1 2 3}. 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 ¹. On Alikhan Bukeikhanov's recommendation he became secretary and translator of the Muslim faction in the State Duma ¹.

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 ^{1 2}. He then worked with the Alash authorities in Semey, fled south, and took part in the Transcaucasian Seim and government at Tiflis ¹.

When Transcaucasia fell in February 1921 he emigrated to Istanbul, wrote for The Times and the Turkish press, and moved to Paris that summer ¹. 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 ^{1 2}. 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 ¹.

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 ^{1 3}.

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 ^{1 2 3 4}. His faith segment is therefore recorded as unknown, flagged, with the infobox reading preserved in the record's note.

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