The Kazakhs are a central Asiatic Turkic people whose language belongs to the Kipchak group of the Altaic family. Most Kazakhs identify themselves as Sunni Muslims. According to a 1997 population estimate, approximately 9 million Kazakhs resided in the...

(b. 1936), Kazakh writer and politician. Olzhas Omarovich Suleimenov contributed to the rise of Kazakh nationalism during the Soviet era by publishing his controversial book Az i Ia (1975), which was a historical-philosophical essay on Turkic...

The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazaks, Qazaqs; Kazakh: Қазақтар [qɑzɑqtɑr]; Russian: Казахи; the English name is transliterated from Russian) are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also found in...

ALMATY THE return of a Kazakh family to its homeland is an emotional event. Local officials, musicians and young women dressed in traditional clothes, offering bread and salt as custom requires, usually form the welcoming committee. About 4.5m ethnic Kazakhs live outside...

The division of Kazakhstan's three social groups called hordes is rooted in the country's early history. When the Soviet Union overtook the country, the hordes disappeared. The groups are now reemerging, and they act much like political parties by providing favors to their own...

Kazakhstan's longtime leader on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that waives presidential term limits and allows him to seek the top post indefinitely.Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has resisted democratic reforms during his 17-year rule and was re-elected with 91 percent of the vote in the 2005...

President Nursultan Nazarbayev dissolved the lower house of parliament Wednesday and called early general elections in what the opposition called a maneuver to secure his grip on power in Kazakhstan.Nazarbayev said in a televised statement that the early vote, to take place in August, was...