Ayaz İshaki

عياض إسحاقي

22 February 1878 CE · 19 Safar 1295 AH† – 22 July 1954 CE · 22 Dhu al-Qa'da 1373 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Istanbul

Leading figure of the Tatar national movement (1878–1954): author, journalist, publisher and politician, secretary of state of the short-lived Idel-Ural State in 1918. He emigrated in 1920 and spent the rest of his life organising the Tatar diaspora and publishing in its defence; he died at Ankara in 1954 and was buried at Istanbul.