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Nazgul Kenzhetay

Nazgul Kenzhetay (Cyrillic: Назгуль Кенжетай), is a Kazakh journalist, editor, and Kazakhstan's first war correspondent, active in Turkey.[1]

Nazgul Kenzhetay
Native name
Назгуль Кенжетай
Born1995
Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan
OccupationJournalist, editor, correspondent
LanguageKazakh, Russian, English, Turkish, French
EducationAkdeniz University, Istanbul Commerce University
Website
nazgulkenzhetay.com

She worked as a journalist on the Turkish–Syrian border in cooperation with the United Nations and UNICEF. She became one of the new names of Kazakhstan in the program called 100 New Names of Kazakhstan held on October 16, 2018.[2] She is actively producing Turkish content at GZT owned by the Albayrak Group which has close relations with the AKP government.[3][4][5]

Life

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She was born in Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan. She studied at Akdeniz University and Istanbul Commerce University through Türkiye Scholarships.[6]

Role in Syria

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She worked as a war correspondent for the United Nations and UNICEF in Syria, and did anti-regime reporting in Syria. We can summarize her view on Russia and Syria in her words:[7]

Russia supports anyone who uses chemical weapons against its own people, such as Bashar al-Assad. This is Russia's policy.

Her view on Syrian refugees is also in the direction of the integration of refugees. We can summarize this with her own words from her interview dated March 20, 2019:[8]

(Question: Tell us more about your projects.) For example, this is a photography project called “No-citizenship Faces”. It is dedicated to the assimilation of refugees, their residence in Turkey and European countries.

Arrest by the Russian police and the Bir Tugan documentary

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On December 16, 2021, she was illegally arrested by the Russian police while shooting a documentary in Turkish about the Turkic peoples in Russia. It was widely covered in the Turkish press.[3] Their volunteer lawyer said that the European Convention on Human Rights and the Russian Constitution were violated. The videos they took were unlawfully deleted and they were not given a lawyer. The Abakan City Court ordered their deportation 10 days later.[3]

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs stepped in and demanded the release of Nazgul and cameraman Emin.[9] The Kazakhstan ambassador and his deputy came to Khakassia for Nazgul and Emin and said that, according to Nazgul, they could send a diplomatic note to Russia if needed.[10] Nazgul and Emin were released by the court on 24 December 2021.[11]

After Nazgul was released she said the following words:[10]

The file prepared about us was written what we did even on the train step by step. The police were waiting for us before we arrived at our destination.

The first episode of the documentary, prepared by Nazgul and Emin, was broadcast on Tvnet on May 4 under the name Bir Tugan.[12] Bir Tugan (Kazakh: Бір Туған, Turkish (literally): Bir Doğan, Russian: Родной (о единоутробном брате, сестре)[13]), literally means "people born the same" in Kazakh.

References

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  1. ^ "Первый казахстанский военный корреспондент рассказала о работе в Сирии – Новости Казахстана – свежие, актуальные, последние новости об о всем". www.kazpravda.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  2. ^ "Назгуль Кенжетай". Қазақстанның жаңа есімдері (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  3. ^ a b c A.Ş, Piri Medya (2021-12-23), Nazgul ve Emin'den haber var: Avukatları Tyundeşev tüm detayları anlattı (in Turkish), Gzt, retrieved 2021-12-23
  4. ^ Gzt (2021-12-20). "GZT Giresunspor'un ismi nereden geliyor? GZT'nin açılımı ne? GZT nedir? GZT'nin sahibi kim?". Gzt (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  5. ^ "Erdoğan'ın yakın arkadaşı Albayrak'a 7 milyar TL değerinde 437 ihale". www.cumhuriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). 27 September 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  6. ^ Сардарбек, Азат (2019-03-26). "Назгүл Кенжетай: Мен үшін қанша ақша төленетіні маңызды емес". www.forbes.kz. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  7. ^ "Назгүл КЕНЖЕТАЙ, халықаралық журналист: Өзгерістер үшін халықта саяси сана өзгеруі қажет". www.oinet.kz (in Kazakh). Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  8. ^ МИЛЛЕР, Илья (2019-03-20). "Военный корреспондент Назгуль Кенжетай: в горячей точке надо быть эгоистом". Главные новости Казахстана – Новостной портал «Экспресс К» (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  9. ^ "gzt editörleri Nazgul ve Emin'e destek yağıyor: Dışişleri Bakanlığı serbest bırakılmalarını talep etti". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). 2021-12-23. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  10. ^ a b "Rusya'da esaret altında 10 gün – Nazgul Kenzhetay ve Emin Karaçak anlattı – YouTube". www.youtube.com. 6 January 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  11. ^ Gzt (2021-12-24). "Rusya'da gözaltına alınmışlardı: GZT editörleri Nazgul ve Emin serbest bırakıldı". Gzt (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-12-24.
  12. ^ "'Bir Tugan' ilk bölümüyle 4 Mayıs'ta yayında! – YouTube". www.youtube.com. 29 April 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  13. ^ версия 1.06, Система Управления Контентом author™ (14 May 2022). "Сөздік". Русско-казахский словарь (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-05-14. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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