Turkic Council Project Director Zhyldyz Uzakova attended the forum entitled ‘Revival of Identity and Cultural Heritage: Turkic Language from Past to Future’.

Turkic Council Project Director Zhyldyz Uzakova attended the international forum entitled ‘Revival of Identity and Cultural Heritage: Turkic Language from Past to Future’ organized by the International Turkic Academy on 30 April 2018 in Paris at the UNESCO Headquarters.

The said forum was organized with the aim to promote the initiative of the Republic of Turkey to determine and celebrate the “International Day of Turkic Languages” at UNESCO and commemorate the 125th anniversary of famous Kazakh poet Magjan Jumabayev, the 90th anniversary of prominent Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aytmatov and the 100th anniversary of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Ambassadors of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey to Paris and the permanent representatives of the Member States to UNESCO conveyed the messages of the Presidents of the Member States to the audience. In their speeches, the Ambassadors emphasized that the Turkic Languages had a very important place in the world of science, besides its spiritual value in the past, present and future. It was also noted about the importance of the heritage of the language left by the famous Turkic writers, poets, linguists to more than 200 million speakers of the Turkic languages.

Governor of the South Kazakhstan Region Zhanseyit Tuymebayev gave a reception in honor of the participants at the end of the forum.

After the reception, the participants visited the tomb of Ali Mardan Topchubashov, one of the founders of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Turkic linguists, experts, scientists in the field and representatives of Turkic speaking people from over 20 countries participated in the stated forum.