Person

Ahmet Baitursynuly

Date: 1872-09-05

Ahmet Baitursynuly (1872–1937) was a Kazakh linguist, poet and educator who reformed the Arabic-based alphabet for Kazakh, co-founded the newspaper Qazaq in 1913 with Alikhan Bukeikhanov and Mirjaqip Dulatuli, helped lead the Alash movement, and was shot at Alma-Ata in the Great Purge of 1937.

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