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(contracted; show full)publisher=William Carey Library|isbn=978-0-87808-352-7|pages=314–}}</ref> ''Friendship and Culture Society of Kyrgyzstan'' (Кыргызстан Достук жана Маданият Коому) (Kırgızistan Kültür ve Dostluk Derneği Resmi Sitesi) is a Kyrgyz diaspora organization in Turkey.<ref>{{cite web |title=Кыргызстан Достук жана Маданият Коому |url=http://www.kyrgyzstan.org.tr/tr.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131008052336/http://www.kyrgyzstan.org.tr/tr.html |archivedate=2013-10-08 
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They were airlifted in 1982 from Pakistan where they had sought refugee after the [[Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]] at the end of 1979. Their original home was at the eastern end of the [[Wakhan]] Corridor, in the [[Pamirs]], bordering on China.  It is not known how many Kyrgyz still live in Van and how many have moved on to other parts of Turkey.

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