Eagle hunters with traditional clothing prepare for competition at the World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. (Photo: VCG) A group of ladies show their traditional dress in Kyrgyzstan.

THE president of Kyrgyzstan has said women can become radicalised by wearing Islamic dress. Almazbek Atambayev has tried to dissuade women in the country from dressing in hijabs, niqabs and burkas … ...

Women at Kiyiz Duin in the traditional clothing of Kyrgyzstan ©Cam McLeod 2022. During the Soviet Union, cultural traditions were not encouraged, and that went for everything from clothing to ...

THE president of a muslim majority nation has warned traditional Islamic dress like the burka and niqab leads to radicalism and terrorism. 13:50, Sun, Aug 14, 2016 | UPDATED: 14:30, Sun, Aug 14, 2016 ...

Residents of Kyrgyzstan’s capital woke up on July 13 to find stark and, to some, provocative billboards on some of the city’s main thoroughfares. The huge poster shows three groups of women in a ...

However, in 2014, while speaking at a session of Kyrgyzstan's Security Council, President Atambayev said that it was not the conservative clothing, or Muslim traditions, that he had a problem with ...

Women can become radicalised to become terrorists if they put on Islamic dress, the President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev, has claimed in his most recent intervention in a national debate on ...