The Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Library, opened at the Yunus Emre Turkish Cultural Centre in Astana, was established with the support of academic Nurfer Tercan and her husband, Tansel Tercan. Nurfer Tercan had the library built in memory of her father. Holding more than 3,000 works in Turkish, Kazakh, English and Russian, the library was inaugurated in the presence of Türkiye’s Ambassador in Astana, Mustafa Kapucu, and members of Kazakhstan’s Parliament.
Ambassador Kapucu thanked the Tercans and paid tribute to Nurfer Tercan’s late father. The newspaper Egemen Qazaqstan reported that Tercan, a sociologist, is a graduate of Boğaziçi University, completed her doctorate at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and teaches at Gumilyov Eurasian National University.
In the press: TRT Avaz · Haberler.com (AA) · Egemen Qazaqstan