Remarks by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the second meeting of the National Kurultai “Just Kazakhstan – Responsible Citizen”
At the very start, let me emphasize that, in my opinion, the National Kurultai is not a solemn meeting at which grandiloquent speeches are made.
Our ancestors convened the Kurultai in critical periods of history to discuss and make important decisions for the country.
The Revolt of 1916 in Turkestan
* The revolt of 1916 was brought about by the tsarist ukase of June 25, 1916, by which Turkestanians were also to be mobilized for military service “behind the lines.” In Turkestan, 250,000 men between the ages of 19 and 43 were to be inducted: from the district of Syr Darya, 60,000 men; from Samarkand, 32,407 men; from Fergana 51,000 men; from Jetisu 43,000 men; from Transcaspia 13,831 men. (Yach Turkistan, No. 23,24,1931, Paris).
Memorandun of the Anti-Bolshevik Block of Nations
Full destruction of Bolshevism entails: a) The patrition of the USSR into national states established on their etnic territories, i.e. Ukraine, White Ruthenia (Byelorussia), Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Turkestan, Azerbaijian, Armenia, Siberia, Don and others Cossak lands, northen Caucasus, etc.