The Communist Party of Turkestan (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Туркестана, romanized: Kommunisticheskaya partiya Turkestana; Uzbek: Turkiston Kommunistik partiyasi; Tajik: Ҳизби Коммунистии Туркистон, romanized: Hizbi Kommunistii Turkiston; Kyrgyz: Түркстан коммунисттик партиясы, romanized: Türkstan kommunisttik partiyasy[citation needed]) was a branch of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) which operated in the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Thus the Muslim Bureau (Musbiuro) of the Territorial Committee of the Communist Party of Turkestan was formed.
The congress suggested that a unified Turkic Soviet Republic be formed, a demand that was later ignored by the RCP(b).
In 1922, 1500 Russian Orthodox were purged from the Communist Party of Turkestan on the grounds of 'religious prejudice', but not a single Muslim.
[1] In 1924 the Communist Party of Turkestan was dissolved, as the boundaries of Soviet Central Asia were re-drawn.