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Neweurasia follows up on an attack at the end of January on B.N. Pegasus, a Turkish construction company. According to Neweurasia, Tahsin Akkash the CEO of the company and a well-known Turkish architect, is being detained in Almaty, apparently without charges being laid against him. According to a forum posting, Tahsin was taken into custody, but is currently hiding in amnesty in the Turkish Embassy in Almaty. It claims that the whole thing is engineered by Marya Nazarbayeva, presumably the wife of the brother of the President. Elsewhere claims have been made that the B.N. in B.N. Pegasus refers to President Nazarbayev’s brother. The post further claims that both the Jan attacks and this arrest are engineered by Mrs. Nazarbayeva and that she has armed guards waiting at the embassy gates.

A few things are a bit weird here. I’m not clear on how he was taken into custody but ended up at the Embassy. Also surely the Turkish government has the right to clear armed guards from its gates. There isn’t a clear motive listed anywhere. And finally, if the initials indicate an alliance with the Nazarbayev family then why is the CEO under attack? But there is a large campaign going on in Turkey with many websites reporting on this and there is promise of a book exposing mafia involvement in Kazakhstan business.

I have no idea what is factual and what is not. It seems to me the heart of the matter is all the comments from Turks saying that Kazakhstan is corrupt, that Turks are mistreated and all the Kazakhs commenting that Turks are dirty and corrupt and mistreat Kazakhs. Whoever is involved, wherever it is happening, there does seem to be serious tension between Turkish and Kazakhstany people which explodes periodically. It seems to me that some serious study needs to be done into why this is happening.