Azıza Şahıdı
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| Title: | Foreign Minister of Turkestan |
| Term in office: | 2007–Present |
| Predecessor: | Asxat Akan-ulı |
| Successor: | Incumbent |
| Title: | Special Minister for Qaşgar, Turkestan |
| Term in office: | 1997–2007 |
| Predecessor: | None |
| Successor: | SUCCESSOR |
| Birth: | |
| Date: | 28- Mizäm, Qoı jıl 1967 (28th June 1967) |
| Place: | Düşönbö, Tajikistan |
| Profession: | Politician |
| Political Party: | Transnational Party |
| Relgious Affiliation: | Islam |
Biography
Azıza Şahıdı is the current Foreign Minister of Turkestan and head of the Transnational Party. As such, she and her party have had considerable influence in shaping Turkestan's foreign policy and encouraging its membership in various alliances and international bodies.
Azıza tätä was the first Special Minister for the Qaşgar region; this was her first high-profile role in the Turkestani government. From the outset, she has tried to be evenhanded towards the large and fairly hostile Uygur minority in the region, and this has gone some way towards defusing some of the tension in the region left over from the Qaşgar War. Despite the reputation she has established for evenhandedness, her party's platform and the leaning towards pan-Turkism among many of its rank-and-file members makes many Uygurs nervous and suspicious of her motives.
In 2007 she took over the Foreign Ministry from Asxat Akan-ulı, head of the Liberal Party.
