Halife Altay (1917 – 15 August 2003 in
Almaty
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) was a
Kazakh author and anthropologist. He fled the
People's Republic of China
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during the
Kazakh exodus from Xinjiang, and later wrote about the migration and about Kazakh culture. He lived in
Turkey
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for a period, and then moved to
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
.
Works
*''Halife Altay, Anayurttan Anadoluʹya, Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı (1981). (Turkish)''
*''Halife Altay, Kazak Türklerine aid şecere, Istanbul (1997) (Turkish)''
External links
Page at centrasia.ru
1917 births
2003 deaths
Writers from Xinjiang
Kazakh-language writers
Chinese emigrants to Turkey
Turkish emigrants to the Soviet Union
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