Kazakhstan: President Calls for Switch to Latin Alphabet by 2025 Aktan Rysaliev Apr 12, 2017 The president of Kazakhstan published an article in a state newspaper on April 12 announcing a switchover to the Latin alphabet by 2025 — a stark change of tack from the vaguer and longer-term objectives set previously. Nursultan Nazarbayev wrote in Kazakh language newspaper Egemen Kazakhstan that under go