Darkhan Kydyrali

Darkhan Kydyrali, born on April 16, 1974 in the Tulkibas district of the South Kazakhstan Region. He had graduated from the № 2 Republican Boarding School with particular emphasis on the Kazakh language and literature in Almaty. Since 1988, his poems and articles have been published in various national journals and newspapers. He was the winner of the Republican Contest of high-school students on the Kazakh language and literature (1991).

Education

1991–1992 – Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan).

1992–1996 – Marmara University (Turkey).

1996–1997 – Dokuz Eylul University (Turkey).

1997–1998 – Ege University (Turkey).

1998–2001 – Istanbul University (Turkey).

Dr. Kydyrali undertook the internship at the Cairo University in Egypt (2006) and the International Language Institute in Washington, the U.S. (2013).

2001–2005 – Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University: Research fellow, Academic secretary, Head of the department, Chief of staff, senior research fellow.

2003–2005 – Senior research fellow of the Institute of Turkic Studies and "Bauyrzhantanu" Research Center.

2005–2006 – Associate Professor, senior research fellow at the Lev Gumilev Eurasian National University.

2005–2006 – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of "Tugan til" (Mother Tongue) Almanac.

2006–2007 – Deputy Director of the Presidential Center of Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2006–2007 – Anchorman of the "Kumbez" spiritual TV program at the "Kazakhstan" television channel.

2007–2008 – Counsellor of the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

2008–2009 – Expert of Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Acting Head of Sector.

2009–2012 – Deputy Press Secretary of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2012 he was elected as the member of the Executive Board of the Union of writers of Kazakhstan.

2012–2014 – Deputy Secretary-General of the Turkic Council.

Since 2014 he has been working as President of the International Turkic Academy.

Since July 2016 he has been working as chairman of the board of the "Egemen Kazakstan" national newspaper.

In 1998 at the Ege University he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic of "The life, works and worldview of Mustafa Shokai". Darkhan Kydyrali had defended his another doctoral thesis at the Istanbul University on "The Jadidism movement in Turkestan and its relations with Turkey" (2001). He defended his third doctoral thesis on "The idea of the united Turkestan" and successfully graduated from the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University in 2010.

Dr. Kydyrali is the Professor of the Lev Gumilev Eurasian National University, the Istanbul University, Mimar Sinan University in Turkey.

Dr. Kydyrali's research interests include Mustafa Shokai, idea of Turkestan, personalities of Alash movement, history of Kazakhs, distinguished figures of the Turkic world, the problems of the Turkic studies, history of literature.

• Mustafa Shokai. Ankara, 2001.
• Taraz tarihy. Taraz, 2005.
• Turyk halyktary adebiety tarihy. (collective volume) Turkestan, 2005.
• Mustafa Shokai. Astana, 2007.
• Ulyk Turkestan. Astana, 2008.
• Atymdy adam koigan son... Astana, 2008.
• Zheruiyk. Аstana, 2009.
• Mustafa. Аstana, 2012.

• Recipient of the "Daryn" youth award (1998).
• Recipient of the Certificate of gratitude from the President of Kazakhstan and medals.
• Laureate of the "Kultegin" award for high achievements in Turkic studies (2014).
• Recipient of the "For service to Turkic world" prize (2015).
• Recipient of the Golden medal "For service to Turkic history and culture" awarded by the "New Turkey" Strategic Institute (2015).
• Laureate of the "Red Apple" award (2015).
• Recipient of the "20th anniversary of the Kazakhstan People Assembly" (2015) medal.
• The Prize for outstanding service for the Turkic world (2016).
• An International Award "For service to the Turkic World" presented by the Silk Road Strategy research center and The Silk Road Magazine (2017)

Scientific Integration of the Turkic World, Interview to the "Mysl'" (Thought) Magazine, December 23, 2014 (in Russian).

At the Heart of the “Greater Eurasia”, Interview to the "Kaspiy" (Caspian) Analytical Portal of Azerbaijan (in Russian).

Abay: The Leader of the Modernization Period in Turkestan, "Kardes Kalemler" (Brotherly Pens) International Magazine (in Turkish)