Comments on: Reporting on Clashes between Oil Workers

By: Stephan

Stephan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:19:18 +0000

Turks deserve it!!! Actually, it is less than that should be done. Don’t consider all turks as innocence. They have done a lot of thing illegal, fraud, treating unethically local people. Why those thing don’t happen to other nationalities. It is clear that it is problem of only turks living in Kazakhstan. I am not against of any nationality but I have seen a lot of thing that our people really don’t deserve it from turks. It is almost everywhere common history where turks live (not all of them of course)

By: Ataman Rakin

Ataman Rakin — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:45:17 +0000

“National employees are paid 2-3 times less than personnel with Turkish citizenship. This causes protests in local community and leads to cold war…”

Look, perhaps there is also something else that one has to face: Turks (and Chinese) are generally harder-working and savvier than Kazakhs who can sometimes be as ‘naglii’ as lazy. Also, alcoholism is not so much of a problem among Turks and Chinese.

By: Özgecan

Özgecan — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:01:11 +0000

Being Kazakh-Turk myself, this really was a big scandal for all of us. There have been endless discussions on this topic especially in the Altayeli forum (of the Kazakh-Turks in Turkey and all over the world), trying to figure out whose fault all of this was and whether there is a Kazakh-Turkish hostility in Kazakhstan. The latest posts emphasise again, the brotherhood and the friendship of the two Turkic nations and point out to an article in the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet by a Kazakh-Turk, evaluating the situation and repeating over and over again, the number of Turkish firms in Kazakhstan and that this one slip cannot eradicate the strong connection of brotherhood between the two countries. The article(in Turkish) is available under http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/5324966.asp?yazarid=42&gid=61.

By: phitogoras

phitogoras — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:53:28 +0000

I was there When incident was happened.It was an massacre and madness.Turks helped to built new kazakhstan.But for now on for turk?sh majority Kazakhstan is not an friend and brotherhood county.

By: acelle

acelle — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:37:05 +0000

this is terrible. it does not make us look good internationally!

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Kazakhstan: Atyrau Violence

Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Kazakhstan: Atyrau Violence — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:51:31 +0000

[…] Leila rounds up some of the blogosphere discussion of the recent violence in Atyrau between Turkish and Kazakh workers. […]

By: Leila

Leila — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:47:54 +0000

A previous comment had to be deleted because it condoned violence.

By: Haluk Direskeneli

Haluk Direskeneli — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:48:28 +0000

Thank you. Very informative.

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