Ehmetjan Qasim
Soviet politician
Died when: 35 years 134 days (424 months)Star Sign: Aries

Ehmetjan Qasim (Uighur: ????????? ??????;April 15, 1914 – August 27, 1949) was the president of the Second East Turkestan Republic.He was a Uyghur political leader in East Turkistan, and also the vice chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial Coalition Government.
Ehmetjan was born in Ghulja in 1914.He studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, Moscow in 1936 and was a member of Communist Party of Soviet Union.
Ehmetjan was described as "Stalin's man" and as a "communist-minded progressive".Qasim russified his surname to "Kasimov" and became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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