Kazakhstan uses Borat catchphrase in tourism campaign

But the mockumentary sequel has drawn sharp criticism from the Kazakh American Association, which accused the film of depicting the Muslim-majority country as “misogynistic, incestuous and antisemitism”. 

“As ethnic Kazkahs are an enigma to Americans, we pose an easy target for racism,” the group said in a letter to Amazon executives ahead of its 23 October Amazon release. 

“In this film, a white person adorns a Kazakh persona and then culturally appropriates and belittles everything we stand for,” the letter said. 

In a statement to the New York Times on Monday, Mr Cohen said Kazakhstan was a “beautiful country with a modern, proud society.”

“This is a comedy, and the Kazakhstan in the film has nothing to do with the real country,” he said.

 “I chose Kazakhstan because it was a place that almost nobody in the US knew anything about, which allowed us to create a wild, comedic, fake world. “