ISLAMIC PARTY OF TURKESTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Islamic Party of Turkestan mean? 

• ISLAMIC PARTY OF TURKESTAN (noun)
  The noun ISLAMIC PARTY OF TURKESTAN has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996; opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia; is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries

  Familiarity information: ISLAMIC PARTY OF TURKESTAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ISLAMIC PARTY OF TURKESTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in 1996; opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia; is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

IMU; Islamic Group of Uzbekistan; Islamic Party of Turkestan

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Republic of Uzbekistan; Uzbek; Uzbekistan (a landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet)