Timur Beg (Uyghur: تیمور بیگ) or Timur Sijan (division general) was a Uighur rebel military leader in Xinjiang in 1933. He was involved in the 1933 Battle of Kashgar and participated before in Turpan Rebellion (1932). He associated with the Turkic nationalist Young Kashgar Party and appointed himself as ‘Timur Shah’. He and other Uighurs like the Bughra brothers wanted to secede from China.
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