The new issue of the journal “Nenkecan” published in Crimea is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the I Turkological Congress.
The editor and chief writer of the journal, Zera Bəkirova, provided readers with detailed information about the 8 individuals who represented the Crimean Tatar people at the I Turkological Congress – Bəkir Çobanzadə, Mahmud Nedim, Həsən Səbri Ayvazov, Həbibulla Odabaşı, İsmayıl Lemanov, Osman Akçokraklı, Şövqü Bektore, Yakub Kamal – and also about the significance, history, and participants of the I Turkological Congress in Baku.
According to Modern.az, on February 26, an iftar dinner was held in the city of Aqmescit, Crimea, at the initiative of the women's journal “Nenkecan”, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Turkological Congress which began on February 26, 1926, at the “Ismailiyya” Palace in Baku.
During the iftar, the memory of the congress delegates who were subjected to repression in 1937-38 was respectfully commemorated. Subsequently, the journal's editor-in-chief Zera Bəkirova, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University, Lenura Koroğlu, Istanbul University doctoral student Gülnar Seitvaniyeva, and literary scholar Cəmilə Süleymanova delivered speeches at the meeting. They spoke about the traces of the I Congress in the Turkic world, the struggles waged to prevent the extinction of the mother tongue, the importance of transitioning to a common Turkic alphabet, preparations for the congress in Azerbaijan, alphabet reform, and the unity of the Turkic world.
