Turkestan Caliphate

### Government

Unitary Naqshbandi Islamic Caliphate under a totalitarian theocratic Dictatorship

### 2nd Head of Government

Irgash Bey - Supreme Leader of the Shura Councils

### Legislature

Shura Councils

The Turkestan Caliphate is a nation located North of the Persian Empire, Emirate of Bukhara and Kingdom of Afghanistan, South of Soviet Rus and the Russian Republic and east of the Heavenly Empire of China.

## History

The Persian Conquest of Khiva and Bukhara was a huge disaster for the Turkic peoples in the region, especially due to the fact that they were being booted out of their homelands and were evicted from their homes which were given to Persians, Afghans, Tajiks and Indians. Many of them were exiled to the Turkestan region of Imperial Russia during the Russian revolution.

The Khan of Khiva, an Uzbek was forcefully exiled by Reza Shah's forces after he "unlawfully" declared the independence of Khiva after riots against the Persian Administration of the region when they were creating a government order to exile all Turkic peoples to the Turkestan regions of Russia and China.

The Russian Civil War and the China crisis resulted in the Turkic peoples of the two Turkestan regions to declare independence. The two Turkestan regions both became Khanates known as the Khanate of Khiva in the west and the Khanate of Kumul in the east.

The Khiva Khanate had waged wars against the Kumul Khanate to conquer Kumul and get more land for the Turkic refugees that were being banished by the Persian Government. Sadly they were loosing to the Ma family warlords who have political influence over the Khanate. The Khiva Khan, Sayid Abdullah finding out the Kumul Khan, Maqsud Shah has heirs worried him about the Succession to the throne of Khiva. Abdullah had then adopted Sultanzade Ömer Nami Bey (b. 1911) as his heir. Sadly the adoption process never happened for Abdullah was executed by the Ma Family Warlords after they and the Kumul Khanate took over the Khanate of Khiva.

Junaid Khan the Warlord who is in charge of Khiva's State Forces then took control of all of Turkestan with the help of Turkic Fundamentalists and Turkic Nationalists. The rebels executed members of the Ma Family and the whole entire Kumul Royal Family and they had taken control of the whole entirety of Turkestan. Junaid Khan had become Xalifa of the newly proclaimed Turkestan Caliphate. Sadly the Caliphate is surrounded by enemies who desire to destroy it.

## Government

Turkestan is a Unitary Naqshbandi Islamic Caliphate under a totalitarian theocratic Dictatorship, the ruler of this regime is called the Xalifa or "Leader of the People". The Xalifa has full control of Turkestan Society and his word is law. The Xalifa only has three people in the government, and these people are the Grand Ayatollah who is the leader of the Religious Institutions and his deputy, the leader of the Shura Councils who is in charge of the Shura Councils who govern the land and enforce Sharia Law. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs is a branch led by a Minister who's job is to represent the religious bodies of all tribes and report the day to day lives of the people.

Western, Indo-Aryan and Chinese influences are banned by the government, the nation's national anthem "Ай туған жер" (Ey Ana Makan) is only sung in Nasheed because music is banned by Sharia Law and is punishable by death. The only legal languages are Uyghur, Uzbek, Kazakh, Turkmen and Kyrgyz and only those ethnic groups are allowed in Turkestan, those who are not of those ethnic groups are do not speak those languages are ruthlessly killed by the Basmachi. This discrimination is due to the discrimination they had faced at the hands of the Russians, Persians and Chinese for many years.

## Military

The "Military" of the Caliphate is a group of Holy Warriors known as the Basmachi (Uzbek for Bandit). These warriors were once a movement who's roots lay in the anti-conscription violence of 1916 that erupted when the Russian Empire began to draft Muslims for army service in World War I. In the months following the October 1917 Revolution the Bolsheviks seized power in many parts of the Russian Empire and the Russian Civil War began. The Movement consists of various Turkestani Muslim political movements and warriors from the many tribes within the nation. The Basmachi is nothing more than warriors equipped with outdated guns who are nothing more than Fundamentalist Guerrillas.