The first translation of the Holy Quran in Old Turkic has been reprinted in Kazakhstan after the first print in the city of Turkistan, according to Anadolu Agency.

The copy, known as the Istanbul Copy, is in the Old Turkic language of the Kara-Khanid Khanate period (9th to 13th centuries).

The original version is displayed in Istanbul’s Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum.

The copy was unveiled in a conference organized in Kazakhstan and includes prefaces by the Turkish and Kazakh officials.  

Old Turkic is the earliest attested form of Turkic, found in Göktürk and Uyghur inscriptions dating from about the 7th century AD to the 13th century. It is the oldest attested member of the Orkhon branch of Turkic, which is extant in the modern Western Yugur language.