An explosive device that was placed inside the house of Judge Abdul-Mahdi Najar who lives in Tuz Khormatu went off about three o’clock this afternoon on the 2nd of January 2009.
The blast occurred in the Aksu neighbourhood in Tuz Khormatu district which is one of the Turkmeneli districts; it is located on the highway between [...]

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Chingiz Aitmatov
December 12, 2008
By Tyntchtykbek Tchoroev
 
This week marks the culmination of a yearlong celebration in Kyrgyzstan of the writer and thinker Chingiz Aitmatov, who died on June 10, a few months short of his 80th birthday.
Aitmatov is revered for building a bridge between the world of traditional Kyrgyz folklore and modern Eurasian literature. [...]

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Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University
International Committee of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIEPO)
Interim Symposium
On the Central Asiatic Roots of the Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Culture
August 24-29, 2009, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
First Circular
We are pleased to announce that the CIEPO Symposium on the Central
Asiatic Roots of the pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Culture will be held at
Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, 24-29 August, 2009.
The Organizing [...]

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TURKEY PUSHES FOR CLOSER POLITICAL TIES WITHIN THE TURKIC-SPEAKING WORLD
http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2373559
By Saban Kardas
Monday, November 24, 2008
 

The speakers and delegates of the parliaments of the Turkish-speaking countries—Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey—met in Istanbul on November 20 and 21 for a Conference of Turkic-Speaking Countries’ Parliamentary Speakers. Turkish Speaker of Parliament Koksal Toptan, Azerbaijani Speaker of [...]

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The idea of establishing Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking Countries was initiated by President of Kazakhstan PNursultan Nazarbayev in 1996.
 
Agreement has been signed on establishment of Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking Countries in the “Conference of Speakers of Parliaments of Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries”, the Chairman of Turkey- Azerbaijan parliamentary group of friendship Mustafa Kabakchi has [...]

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Baku. Elnur Mammadli–APA. Delegation of Azerbaijani Parliament will leave for Turkey on Thursday to participate at the 1st Conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-speaking countries. The Azerbaijani delegation will be headed by Speaker Ogtay Asadov, Spokesman for the Parliament Akif Nasirov told journalists, APA reports. The conference will take place on November 20-22. Delegations [...]

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Linking hijab controversy to fears of Islamic extremism may be counter-productive.
By Abdumomun Mamaraimov in Jalalabad and Saodat Asanova in Dushanbe (RCA No. 556, 14-Nov-08)
“We face a difficult choice – take the headscarf off or give up on school,” said Sahiba Yusupova, whose daughters are under increasing pressure from their school in southern Kyrgyzstan to remove [...]

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14/11-2008 14:46, Bishkek – News Agency “24.kg”,
By Anton LYMAR
“Kyrgyzstan is located in the very heart of Central Asia, which makes it possible to influence Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and even China. To have this region under control is the main aim of the U.S. State Department’s current policy,” independent experts of the Russian media observer [...]

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Heads of Turkish speaking news agencies gathered on Friday in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus at a consultative meeting in a bid to strengthen cooperation between news agencies of Turkic countries.

Friday, 14 November 2008 13:51

Addressing the meeting of the Association of Turkish Speaking News Agencies (TKA), Hilmi Bengi, director general of the Anadolu [...]

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ISTANBUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Turk Telekom TTKOM.IS said on Friday it will bid in a tender to buy a 78 percent stake in Kyrgyzstan monopoly Kyrgyztelecom following its completion of technical studies on the tender on Thursday.
Source : Reuters

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