Ghulam Osman Yaghma

Ghulam Osman Yaghma was re-elected as the President of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile on 11 November 2019 at the government in exile's 8th General Assembly in Washington, DC. He had previously been elected president following the impeachment of the former president in a Special Parliamentary Session in Mugla, Turkey in October 2018. He is the third President of the government in exile since its formation in 2004. Starting in 2009, he had previously served as the Strategic Advisor to the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile. He was elected as the Deputy Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile at the 7th General Assembly held in Tokyo, Japan from 12 November to 15 November.

Yaghma fled China to Kyrgyzstan on 30 April 1996, where he engaged in political activism and business. He later fled Central Asia to Turkey in 1999 after he was not permitted to stay in Central Asia. In Turkey he appealed to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees office in Turkey and after three years, in March 2002, Yaghma was given asylum in Canada. Yaghma is fluent in Uyghur and Turkish, and proficient in English and Chinese. He is married and has 8 children, two of which are allegedly incarcerated in the Xinjiang re-education camps. He resides in Edmonton, Canada.

Ghulam Osman Yaghma (Uighur: غۇلام ئوسمان; born 16 August 1956 in Atush, Xinjiang) is a Canadian Uyghur politician, independence leader, writer, and poet. He is currently the President of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile.