Ertuğrul Khan Ертуğрул Кҳан | |
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Birthplace | ( ![]() |
Wife | Ayorug'lik Khana |
Offspring | Crown Prince Qutluq Prince Bayanchur Princess Mo'l-ko'llik Princess Narantsetseg |
Dynasty | Manghit |
Father | Atabak Khan |
Mother | Aylin Khana |
Religious beliefs | Buddhism |
Ertuğrul I Atabekli Khan (Gokturkic: Ертуğрул Атабекли Кҳан; Russian: Эртугрул Атабекович Хан, Ertugrul Atabekovich Khan; born November 9, 1955) also known as Ertuğrul I or Ertuğrul Khan, is the current Khan of Bukhara and Khagan of Gokturkia.
He is the eldest son of Atabek Khan of the royal House of Manghit's Uzbek branch, and succeeded his father as the Khan of Bukhara. After the collapse of the Russian Empire, although Ilkhan Ertuğrul I himself did not start a monarchist movement, his Vizier, Ercan Chinaraev would represent supporters of the monarchists.
In the 1992 Provisional Government, and via Chinese, Russian and Mongolian support, Chinaraev's monarchists gained one of the largest parties of the Assembly of Turkestan. Originally allied with the Islamic Party of Chagatai which formed the United Front of Justice and Development, Chinaraev's disagreements with the Islamic Party led him to split, and form the Constitutional Democratic Party, which espoused Turkic nationalism and pan-Turanism over Islamism, a party which Ertuğrul I supported secretly, which led many supporters of pan-Turkic nationalism to support him.
However, he left the leadership of the Constitutional Democratic Party up to his former Vizier, Ercan Chinaraev, who didn't participate in the 1994 Parliamentary Elections, but rather ethnic Kazakh Aybek Egizov.
One of his largest controversies was the funding of the Chagatai Khan Eternal Mausoleum located in Huocheng in Xinjiang, China - which contains statues of Chagatai Khan, as well as ancestral worship of him, all of which are forbidden in Islam.