{"id":158911,"date":"2026-02-04T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=158911"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:17:36","slug":"the-draft-of-the-new-constitution-of-kazakhstan-enshrines-the-status-of-the-kazakh-language-as-the-state-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=158911","title":{"rendered":"The draft of the new Constitution of Kazakhstan enshrines the status of the Kazakh language as the state language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was stated by Zhandos Shaimardanov, Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan, at a meeting of the Constitutional Reform Commission, Kazinform reports.<br \/>\nHe noted that a number of citizens had raised the issue of the status of the state language in the Basic Law.<br \/>\n&#8220;However, it is important to emphasize that the draft of the new Constitution clearly and unambiguously enshrines Kazakh as the state language,&#8221; Shaimardanov said.<br \/>\nAs a reminder, the Constitutional Reform Commission published the draft of the new Constitution of Kazakhstan on January 31. The first draft of the new Basic Law consists of a Preamble, 11 sections, and 95 articles. The amendments affect 84% of the text of the Constitution.<br \/>\nKey areas of the reforms include the transition to a unicameral parliament \u2013 the Kurultai, the establishment of the position of vice president, and the creation of the Khalyk Kenesi \u2013 the People&#8217;s Council. The Republic of Kazakhstan remains a unitary state, with a presidential republic as its form of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was stated by Zhandos Shaimardanov, Director of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan, at a meeting of the Constitutional Reform Commission, Kazinform reports. He noted that a number of citizens had raised the issue of the status of the state language in the Basic Law. &#8220;However, it is important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158912,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158911\/revisions\/158912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}