You're mixing up Article 5 with Article 4. Article 5 is if a member is attacked, the other members come to their aid. Article 4 handles the integrity of political independence, territory matters, or security of any parties involved. Turkey had planned to invoke this in 2015 due to internal terrorism threats from ISIS, but ended up not doing so. That was a matter of internal affairs in which domestic strife was at stake. They also issues a potential use of Article 4 on Kurdish autonomy from Turkey, which effectively could be called "internal strife" depending on who you ask.
Russia is not committing the same level of force or strategy for a unilateral encroachment of a country adjacent to NATO forces the same as a Eurasian CTSO ally that calls in reinforcements for civil unrest. It's just not happening and the two aren't even close in comparisons.
Kazakhstan is not the reason why NATO or collective security measures on a mass scale get activated. Ukraine? Yes, potentially.
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