A group of traditional Turkic tents will also be displayed during the festival. In oil wrestling, nearly 300 athletes will be grappling their way to glory.

Turkic culture is at the heart of the World Nomad Games, the brainchild of Kyrgyzstan, which hosted the first contest in 2014. Always attuned to a PR opportunity, Astana has harnessed the occasion to ...

The Turkic nomads of the Mongol successor states in Central Asia and the Qipchaq Steppe arose from the merging of various Turkic groups and the Mongols. The former had consisted of heterogeneous ...