BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 19. The First
Turkological Kurultai was held in 1926 in Baku and is considered
one of the most important events holding a special place in the
history of the Turkic world, President of the International Turkic
Academy Shahin Mustafayev said during his speech at the panel
session titled "A Century of Language and Identity: From the Baku
Turkological Kurultai to Turkic Integration", held within the
framework of the 5th Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Trend reports.
"The Kurultai is an important stage in the development of the
idea of Turkism. For the first time in Turkic history,
representatives of Turkic peoples living in territories stretching
from Siberia to Crimea, from Anatolia to other vast geographical
regions gathered within the framework of this Kurultai. They had
the opportunity to freely express their views on common culture,
language, history, and the future. Along with this, important
decisions were adopted from the point of view of the development of
the idea of Turkism and the future of the Turkic world," Shahin
Mustafayev noted.
