{"id":12857,"date":"2009-06-01T20:58:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=12857"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T06:55:25","slug":"traditional-tatar-holiday-marked-in-kazakh-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/06\/01\/traditional-tatar-holiday-marked-in-kazakh-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Tatar Holiday Marked In Kazakh City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"zoomMe\">SEMEY, Kazakhstan &#8212; The traditional Tatar holiday of Sabantuy was celebrated in the northeastern Kazakh city of Semey (formerly Semipalatinsk) on June 1, RFE\/RL&#8217;s Kazakh Service reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sabantuy traditionally is celebrated by Tatar farmers to mark the end of the spring farming season.<\/p>\n<p>Semey has a large ethnic-Tatar population.<\/p>\n<p>Russian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Mikhail Bocharnikov, Executive Committee Chairman of the World Tatar Congress Rinat Zakirov, Tatarstan&#8217;s representative in Kazakhstan Ildus Tarkhanov, Tatar Cultural Center Chairman in Xinjiang, China, Ayzel Malik, and Tatar diaspora representatives from many Kazakh and Russian cities took part in the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday comes in the wake of the 10th International Festival of Tatar Culture and the conference &#8220;Turko-Tatars in the Modern World: Past, Present, and Further Development&#8221; held in Semey last week. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"zoomMe\">https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/Traditional_Tatar_Holiday_Marked_In_Kazakh_City\/1744413.html<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEMEY, Kazakhstan &#8212; The traditional Tatar holiday of Sabantuy was celebrated in the northeastern Kazakh city of Semey (formerly Semipalatinsk) on June 1, RFE\/RL&#8217;s Kazakh Service reported. Sabantuy traditionally is celebrated by Tatar farmers to mark the end of the spring farming season. Semey has a large ethnic-Tatar population. Russian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Mikhail Bocharnikov, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":462741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,42],"tags":[604,820],"class_list":["post-12857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-russia","tag-tataristan","tag-tatars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}