Kazakhstan’s State Secretary Yerlan Karin on Monday said the recent riots were an attack by terrorists that possibly attempted a coup.
"I think we encountered a hybrid terrorist attack on Kazakhstan that, as its end goal, sought general destabilization and possibly a coup," he said on Khabar 24 television.
According to him, the country’s special services will give an answer as to who inspired the attack, TASS reported.
The official rejected comparisons with "color revolutions or velvet revolutions," saying the government in Kazakhstan was too strong to succumb to such developments.
Instead, he said the unrest represented a "conspiracy of internal and certain external forces" as the terrorists included Kazakh and foreign nationals.
