Abdul Shakoor al-Turkistani (Arabic: عبد الشکور التركستاني), also known as Abdul Shakoor Damla and Emeti Yakuf (Uyghur: ئەخمەت ياقۇپ, romanized: Exmet Yaqup),[1] was the emir of the East Turkistan Islamic Party, an Islamist organisation that seeks independence for China's Xinjiang province and for it to become an Islamic state.

[2] In August 2011, Abdul Shakoor reportedly appeared in a video with his face obscured taking responsibility for the 2011 Kashgar attacks and 2011 Hotan attack.

[2] Abdul Shakoor reportedly took command of al Qaeda forces in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in April 2011 after Saif al-Adel left the region, according to the jihadist newspaper Karachi Islam.

[3][4] Abdul Shakoor was killed in North Waziristan in a CIA drone strike on August 24, 2012.

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