Nursultan Nazarbayev

Kazakh oligarch Daniyar Abulgazin, known as “Hurrem” by his adversaries, has earned this nickname after the Ottoman sultana who rose from being Suleiman the Magnificent’s concubine to his lawful wife and a powerful ruler of the palace. This comparison suggests that Abulgazin, like Hurrem, can manipulate any situation to achieve his goals.

The captain and mate of the yacht, who were arrested by a team of the Fire Service along with 11 other crew members as the culprits of the fire in a forest area in the Bisti area of Hydra Island in the evening hours of Friday, June 21, 2024, were sentenced to early morning detention, with the agreement of the investigator and the prosecutor.

Kazakhs overwhelmingly voted for constitutional changes in a referendum after deadly unrest ended founding leader Nursultan Nazarbayev's three-decade grip on Central Asia's richest country, the election commission said Monday.

The name of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (Turkic Council) has been changed to the Organization of Turkic States, according to a joint declaration of the Council's 8th Summit in Istanbul.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss Syria and Libya, an official statement said on Dec. 29.

According to the statement issued by Turkey's Directorate of Communications, the two leaders also addressed the bilateral relations and regional developments.

After that, Vucic will also talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yesterday he met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

At a joint meeting of the two chambers, Kazakhstan's parliament passed a law renaming the state capital Astana to Nursultan in honor of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, TASS reported.

The members of the Magglias (Lower House) and Senate (upper) unanimously voted in favor of the proposal. The law is considered adopted and is now due to be signed by the president.

Kazakhstan's parliament on March 20 voted to rename the country's capital in honor of long-time ruler Nursultan Nazarbayev, a day after he resigned as president.

Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, said yesterday that he was resigning as the oil-rich Central Asian nation's leader after three decades in power.

Right now, in modern circumstances where there are heightened tensions among the global players, for Kazakhstan, the biggest challenge we see is to contribute to the reduction of these tensions among these key-players, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Roman Vassilenko told AGERPRES in an interview.