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{{Infobox Politician
| name        = Zeydin Yusup
| image       =
| caption = Photo of Zeydin Yusup published in newspapers following the Baren Uprising
| office      =  Founder and first leader of the [[East Turkistan Islamic Party]]
| term_start  = 1988
| term_end    = 6 April 1990
| successor     = [[Hasan Mahsum]]
| birth_date  = 1964
|birth_place= [[Xinjiang]]
|death_date ={{death date|df=yes|1990|4|6}}
|death_place= [[Baren]], Xinjiang
|occupation    = [[Guerilla]], revolutionary, soldier, farmer
|wars= [[Xinjiang conflict]], [[Baren Township riot]]
}}

'''Zeydin Yusup''', also known as '''Zeydin Kari''' or '''[[Ziauddin]] [[Yusuf]]''', was the founder and leader of the [[East Turkestan Islamic Party]], considered an [[separatist organization]] by China.<ref>http://www.hurgokbayrak.com/yeni_sayfa_230.htm</ref>{{unreliable source|date=October 2016}} After finishing high school he joined the [[People's Liberation Army]] serving in the [[Xinjiang Military District]] until 1986. In 1988 at the age of 24 he founded the [[East Turkistan Islamic Party]] with stated goals to 'liberate [[East Turkistan]] from Chinese occupation'.<ref>http://www.islamawazitv.com/videodetay-19-turkistan-islam-partisi-askeri-bas-kumandani-ile-suriye-roportaj.html%3E</ref> 

Abdul Hameed, Abdul Azeez Makhdoom, and Abdul Hakeem Makhdoom launched the Islamic Party of Turkistan in 1940.<ref name="AcharyaGunaratna2010 1">{{cite book|author1=Arabinda Acharya|author2=Rohan Gunaratna|author3=Wang Pengxin|title=Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVDIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false|date=22 June 2010|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-10787-8|pages=53–}}</ref> After being set free from prison in 1979, Abdul Hakeem instructed [[Hasan Mahsum]] and other Uyghurs in fundamentalist Islam.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Arabinda Acharya|author2=Rohan Gunaratna|author3=Wang Pengxin|title=Ethnic Identity and National Conflict in China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVDIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=false|date=22 June 2010|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-10787-8|pages=54–}}</ref>

In 1989 Zeydin Yusup started the group which was originally called East Turkistan Islamic Party(ETIP).<ref name="AcharyaGunaratna2010 1"/><ref name="ReedRaschke2010">{{cite book|author1=J. Todd Reed|author2=Diana Raschke|title=The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5I2b_hrJO8sC&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false|year=2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-36540-9|pages=48–}}</ref> The movement was reshuffled by [[Hasan Mahsum]] and Abudukadir Yapuquan in 1997 into its present incarnation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/china-evolution-etim |title=China: The Evolution of ETIM |website=Stratfor.com |date=13 May 2008 |accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="GunaratnaOreg2015">{{cite book|author1=Rohan Gunaratna|author2=Aviv Oreg|title=The Global Jihad Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrF_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA244#v=onepage&q&f=false|date=1 July 2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-4542-6|pages=244–}}</ref>

Zeydin Yusup was the mastermind behind the [[Baren Township riot]], otherwise known as the Baren Rebellion, in which he led 200 men in Baren, [[Akto County]] in armed conflict against Chinese government forces. The uprising soon spread across to 9 town townships across Kizilsu<ref>http://caccp.freedomsherald.org/et/etib/etib3_2.html</ref> He was killed during the [[Baren Township riot]] on 6 April 1990.<ref>http://www.timeturk.com/turkistan-islam-partisi-mi-yoksa-dogu-turkistan-islam-hareketi-mi/yazar-36752</ref>

TIP's "Islamic Turkistan" magazine in its 3rd edition commemorated the death of its member Dia al din bin Yusuf (Zeydin Yusup).<ref>{{cite magazine|last=|first=|date= June–July 2009|title=الشهيد ضياء الدين بن يوسف|url=https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/e1b8a5izb-al-islc481mc4ab-al-turkistc481nc4abs-turkistan-islamic-party-22turkistc481n-al-islc481mc4abyyah-322.pdf|magazine=تركستان الإسلامية|location=|publisher=|issue=السنة الأولى العدد الرابع|pages=33–34|access-date=|author=عبد الله منصور}}</ref>

Doğu Türkistan Bülteni Haber Ajansı mentioned a brief history of the TIP, from Zeyidin Yusuf founding it in 1988 in "East Turkestan", to its participation in the 1990 riots and insurgency, its "jihad in the path of Allah", its migration in 1996 under Hasan Mahsum to the Taliban controlled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and its war since 2001 against the "Crusaders" for 15 years in the "Afghan jihad", to 2012, when it entered the Syrian Civil War. It released a video showing footage of its battles in Syria including at Abu Dhuhur.<ref> {{cite news |last= |first= |date= 18 October 2016 |title= Türkistan İslam Cemati'nin Suriye'de ki Büyük Fetihleri – VİDEO HABER |url= http://www.doguturkistanbulteni.com/2016/10/18/turkistan-islam-cematinin-suriyede-ki-buyuk-fetihleri-video-haber/ |newspaper= Doğu Türkistan Bülteni Haber Ajansı |location= |access-date= }}</ref>

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