Ernest Tursunov Explained

Ernest Tursunov (Турсунов Эрнис Нурдинович) (24 August 1935 – 11 June 2014) was a Kyrgyzstani poet.^{[1] [2]}

His list of publications includes also translations, controversially, of the Quran from Russian into Kyrgyz, and a Kyrgyz New Testament.^[3]

Notes and References

1. (Russian) Программа - The University of Central Asia 5 окт 2011 "Эрнест Турсунов, Заслуженный поэт Кыргызстана, редактор книги."
2. News: В Бишкеке прощаются с ушедшим из жизни народным поэтом республики Эрнисом Турсуновым . June 12, 2014. Russian. 25 September 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714232012/http://www.24kg.org/community/181206-v-bishkeke-proshhayutsya-s-ushedshim-iz-zhizni.html . 14 July 2014.
3. World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200 p437 Page 437 David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, Christopher R. Guidry - 2001 "Recently (1992) a well known Kirghiz poet, Ernest Tursunov, published his own translation of the Koran in Kirghiz. However, Tursunov could not read Classical Arabic and so did the translation from a Russian edition of the Koran .... Local Christians also complained that Tursunov next set out to translate the New Testament before learning of a secret 16-year project begun by the Institute for Bible Translation"