Jimski999 wrote:My wife is Kazakh and understands Turkish; she says alot of the words are similar though that's where the similarity ends as far as most Kazakhs are concerned. The Turks are not very popular out there and the wish of Inzan for a "Greater Turkic Confederation" is a non starter; I think the Kazakhs made their feelings known about that during the riots there a couple of years ago. I read that the Mongols drove the Turkic tribes west when they started their expansion from Mongolia so to say that the Turkish are from Mongolia is not correct
Naribaev M. K.
Cooperation Kazakhstan – Turkey as an constituent part of integration processes
Journal "Vestnik KazGU". Serial of Economic Siences. Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1999, №1.
The world community points out that Kazakhstan and Turkey, large Euro-Asian states, are consistently striving for the acceleration and deepening the process of multilateral integration among the countries of the continent. Both Turkey, allied with the countries of EU, and Kazakhstan, influential and one of the leading states of the CIS, are promoting fruitful cooperation between the two large political and economic formations on the continent. Kazakhstan also has close contacts with the EU. And it testifies that our relations are based not only on bilateral but on multilateral cooperation within such authoritative international and regional institutions as the UNO, OSCE, ECO, ICO (Islamic Conference Organization) and EU. This process is regarded as the process enhancing integration, a greater share being given to the economic aspect.
http://lib.kazsu.kz/libr/Vestnik/LibrEn ... 9/N1/1.htm
Do u want more proofs abt the significant relations of Kazakh Turks and Turks of Turkey?