Asylkhan Mamashuly is a correspondent in RFE/RL's Kazakh Service.
The Kazakh town of Taldyqorghan was the only place where a statue of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev was toppled during anti-government protests that swept the country in early January. RFE/RL has pieced together how it happened -- and the bloodletting that followed.
A teenage grandson -- one of around 400 "IS children" in Kazakhstan -- is a 60-year-old Kazakh woman's only connection to her late daughter.
Villagers brawled in ethnic clashes in a southern Kazakh district, with groups of men torching houses, overturning cars, and sending hundreds fleeing into neighboring Kyrgyzstan. At least eight people were killed.
When word came from the capital, Nur-Sultan, that no Kazakhs were being held in "reeducation" centers in northwest China's Xinjiang region, many who didn't believe that claim sought help tracking down their loved ones.
Now 90 years old, Omirzak Doszhanov was a fisherman on the Aral Sea before most of it dried into a dust bowl in one of the world's greatest environmental disasters. He remembers the sea's Soviet heyday and prays for it to return to its former glory.
A pending court case in Kazakhstan has provided new evidence that ethnic Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in western China are being rounded up in "reeducation camps."
Turkish teachers in Kazakhstan fear they are being forced out of the country amid Ankara's hunt for alleged supporters of last year's failed coup.
A Kazakh father recently got a first-hand view into his son's life as a jihadist in Iraq.
