organization aimed at forming a military alliance with Nazi Germany in order to liberate the Turkic people living in the Soviet Union. In 1947 a retrial ended with the release of all defendants. In 1953 he became organizer of the İslam Tetkikleri Enstitüsü (Institute for Islamic Studies) at Istanbul University. In 1967, he was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester. At the same time he contributed to the Encyclopedia of Turkic Peoples. His articles about culture, language and history of Turkic peoples have been translated into many languages. References Further reading . . Z.V.Togan. MEMOIRES: Struggle for National and Cultural Independence of the Turkistan and other Moslem Eastern Turks Copeaux, Etienne (1993), « Le mouvement prométhéen », Cahiers d'études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde Turco-iranien (CEMOTI), 16: 9-45. https://www.persee.fr/doc/cemot_0764-9878_1993_num_16_1_1050 Zeki Velidi Togan MEMOIRS: National Existence and Cultural Struggles of Turkistan and other Moslem Eastern Turks, 510 Pp. Zeki Velidi Togan MEMOIRS: National Existence and Cultural Struggles of Turkistan and other Moslem Eastern Turks---full text translated from the original Zaur Gasimov, « Transfer and Asymmetry », European Journal of Turkish Studies [Online], 24 | 2017, Online since 8 November 2017, connection on 17 November 2017. URL : http://ejts.revues.org/5432 External links 1890 births 1970 deaths People from Ishimbaysky District People from Sterlitamaksky Uyezd Russian Constituent Assembly members 20th-century Turkish historians Turkologists Historians of Central Asia Khazar studies Pan-Turkists Muslims from the Russian Empire Turkish people of Bashkir descent People of the Russian Civil War Soviet emigrants to Turkey Academic staff of the University of Bonn