^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"