Murat Nurtileu
Mūrat Äbuğaliūly Nūrtıleu is a Kazakh politician and diplomat, who is currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan. He previously served as Chief of Staff of the President of Kazakhstan.
Early life and career
Murat Nurtileu was born on March 11, 1976, in Almaty, Soviet Kazakhstan. He graduated from Kazakh National University with a degree in International Relations in 1998. He speaks fluent Kazakh, Russian, English, and German.From 1998 to 2007, he held various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.
From 2007 to 2011, he first served as deputy chairman, then as Chairman of the Apparatus of the Senate of Kazakhstan.
In 2011, he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Ambassador-at-large. In the same year, he was appointed as Director of Foreign Ministry's Asia and Africa department. Between 2011 and 2014, Murat Nurtileu served as Minister Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva.
From 2014 to 2016, he worked as Deputy Head of the Center for Foreign Policy of the Presidential Administration.
He then served as Kazakhstan's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Finland, and concurrently as Ambassador to Estonia between 2016 and 2019.
Murat Nurtileu was appointed as Aide to the President of Kazakhstan in March 2019. He then served as Deputy Chief of Staff of the President between 2021 and 2022. In January 2022, Murat Nurtleu was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the National Security Committee. He then served as Chief of Staff of the President of Kazakhstan from 2022 to 2023.
On April 3, 2023, by the Decree of the President, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan.
On September 4, 2025, ORDA reported that Nurtleu had been detained. However, this information was immediately refuted by the Center for Combating Disinformation of the Central Communications Service.