Being part of the Kazakh diaspora of Kazakhs that had emigrated from Western China (Xinjiang province) to Turkey in the 1950s, I was born and raised in the Western hemisphere. However, like most of the Kazakhs of the diaspora, I was also raised in a small community of Kazakhs, learning the language and certain […]

The Kazakh Culture Festival in Munich, Germany (Kishi Quriltay) was held between the 26-27 May this year. This festival is usually organised by the association of the Kazakh Diaspora, also called the “Kazakh-Turks”, of the city. Kazakhs came from all over Europe; Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Turkey and Switzerland. […]

Editor’s Note: What follows is part of a cross-blog survey that explores what Central Eurasia might look like fifteen years from now.
May I please go back in time?
I don’t want this industrial world anymore.
Where
Everything
Is measured
In minutes
And Dollars.
Please let me go back in time
Where my ancestors were warriors;
Bareback on wild horses.
Where horses were spirits;
Spirits of […]

A month after the Atyrau incident, it is still being debated in the Turkish-Kazakh communities and there have been many negative articles and opinions from the Turkish side, with a clear animosity towards the Kazakhs. It is debatable whether this is a productive process, since Turkey and Kazakhstan have been countries close to each […]

Kazakh refugees celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in Turkey at the end of August this year. Thousands of Kazakh families fled from Eastern Turkistan, today’s China’s Xinjiang province, first from the nationalist Chinese government, then from the Chinese Communist suppression since the beginning of the thirties.
These two large groups left their homes in search […]