An international symposium titled “The Legacy of the First Baku Turkological Congress: The Role of Turkology in the Integration of the Turkic World” is being held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event is jointly organized by Baku State University (BSU), the International Turkic Academy, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, the Turkic Language Association, and the Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation.

BSU scholars and specialists are participating in the symposium. The university delegation includes Academician Nizami Jafarov, Head of the Department of General Linguistics; Professor Magerram Mamedov, Head of the Department of Turkology; Musa Marjanly, Director of the Center for Cultural Heritage Studies; and Associate Professor Ikbal Agayev, Head of the Department of History of Asian and African Countries.

The symposium is dedicated to reassessing the legacy of the First Turkological Congress, held in Baku in 1926, which played a major role in shaping the methodological and institutional foundations of Turkology. Discussions focus on contemporary issues such as the unified alphabet, terminology standardization, and scientific cooperation across the Turkic world.

As part of the event, a book exhibition is also being organized, featuring scholarly collections, monographs, special editions, and IRS journals published by IRS Publishing House, headed by Musa Marjanly.