On September 12, an international conference titled “The Legacy of the Great Poet Abay and Spiritual Continuity in the Turkic World” was held in Almaty, organized by the Turkic Academy in cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The event was dedicated to the 180th anniversary of the great Kazakh poet and thinker Abay Qunanbayuly.
The conference gathered the President of the Turkic Academy Shahin Mustafayev, representatives of diplomatic missions, state and public figures, as well as leading scholars in literature and linguistics. The President of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, Akhylbek Kurishbayev, also addressed the participants via a video message.
As part of the conference, the Turkic Academy presented several new publications prepared for Abay’s jubilee. Among them were the reissue of Mukhtar Auezov’s novel “Abay” in the Azerbaijani language using Latin script — first published in Baku in 1954 in Cyrillic and never reprinted since; Abay Qunanbaiuly’s “Words of Edification” published in the Common Turkic Alphabet; and the Turkish translation of Kazakh Abay scholar K. K. Mukhamedkhanov’s work “The Disciples of Abay.”
Speaking at the conference, the President of the Turkic Academy, Prof. Dr. Shahin Mustafayev, emphasized that Abay is not only the heritage of the Kazakh people but also of the entire Turkic civilization.
“These new publications are not merely a tribute to the great thinker, but also an important step towards strengthening cultural unity and continuity in the Turkic world,” said Shahin Mustafayev.
The conference became a platform for the exchange of ideas and scholarly research, as well as for strengthening cooperation among researchers of the Turkic world.
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