Kubanychbek Toktobolot uulu
Kubanychbek Toktobolot uulu is an Iradi politician from the Talas valley who co-founded the nationalist Jer-Suu Party in 1995 and has been secretary (katchı) of the Iradi Freedom Society Chancellery, the standing secretariat of the clan confederation of the Autonomous Tribal Regions (ATR), since 2016.[1][2]
A rural notable from the Talas valley, he founded Jer-Suu ("Land and Water") in Talas in March 1995 with the poet and philologist Tilek Sharshenov. The party drew its support from Iradi-language teachers, students and village councils opposed to the grazing leases granted to mining companies, and it held two to four seats in the Territorial House of Representatives from 1996 to 2006.[1] After many of its members joined the Popular Front of Irad in 2007, the party was banned by the Supreme Court of Irad in April 2008, and its former officials were barred from standing for office in the Irad Special Economic Zone.[3]
Toktobolot uulu then moved to the ATR, where he and other former members joined the Chancellery, giving the Iradi Freedom Society (IAC) a small group of urban, Iradi-educated staff.[3] As secretary since 2016 he heads its staff of about forty clerks, interpreters and couriers, convenes the sessions of the clans' assembly, the Kurultai, on the Aksay Plateau, puts its business and reads to it the written petitions of the women's council. The secretary has no vote and does not speak to the substance of a matter.[2][4]
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References
- ^ Eurasian Political Quarterly (2012). 'Nationalists without a Nation: The Jer-Suu Party, 1995–2008.' Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 201–223.
- ^ Talas State University Press (2018). Clan and Kurultai: Governance in the Autonomous Tribal Regions. Talas, pp. 15–64.
- ^ Abdyldaev, Nurlan (2015). Two Wars for Talas: Armed Forces and Politics in Irad, 1992–2007. Talas: Talas State University Press, pp. 265–290.
- ^ Iradi Freedom Society Chancellery (2022). Compendium of Customary Law (Adat) and Pasture Demarcations. Aksay Plateau.