Abstract
Until Kazakhstan gained independence, Soviet ideology did not provide an opportunity to study the socio-economic, political and spiritual life of Kazakh people who are living abroad. Moreover, such scientific directions as diasporology, emigrantology did not receive proper development. The article "Turkish period in the literature of Kazakh diaspora" is the result of the latest research in Kazakh literary science. This article is about the memories of Kazakh people living in Turkey, their genre, artistic and ideological, style features, nostalgic motives inherent in the memories. The historical and cognitive nature of the memories is also examined. Later, Kazakh emigrants who were arrested during the Second World War and forced to stay abroad, frigntening of returning to the country because of the policy of the Soviet regime in their relation, joined them. One of them is the famous musician Alim Almat. The mentioned representatives of Kazakh emigrant intelligentsia had the opportunity to develop their work in Turkey. As a result, historical memories were written and published about H. Oraltay, H. Altai, A.Almat about the life of Kazakh diaspora abroad. The author devotes his research to the study of Turkish period of Kazakh diasporal literature.