On February 27–28, 2026, an international symposium titled “The Baku Turkological Congress at Its 100th Anniversary” was held, jointly organized by Khazar, ANAS, Yunus Emre Institute, the Turkish Language Association, and Institute of Turkic Studies of Marmara University.

On the first day, the symposium was held in the same hall of the historic building where the First Turkological Congress took place one hundred years ago, which currently houses the Presidium of the ANAS. On the second day, February 28, the symposium continued at Khazar. At the opening of the session organized by the University’s Department of History and Archaeology, the national anthems of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Türkiye were performed. This was followed by a musical program prepared by the Khazar Chamber Orchestra.

In his opening address, Prof. Acad. Hamlet Isakhanli, Founder of Khazar and Chairman of the Board of Directors and Trustees, stated that Turkology is not only a field of linguistics, but a fundamental discipline that unites the shared historical memory, cultural identity, and spiritual heritage of the Turkic peoples as a whole. He described the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Baku Turkological Congress as a symbol of scholarly solidarity in the Turkic world.

During the two-day symposium, speeches were also delivered by Prof. Dr. Kürşat Zorlu, Member of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye, Deputy Chairman of the AK Party and Head of Relations with the Turkic States; Prof. Dr. Birol Akgün, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Azerbaijan; Prof. Dr. Abdurrahman Aliy, President of the Yunus Emre Institute; Dr. Serdar Çam, Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism of Türkiye; Assoc. Prof. Celile Ören Ökten, Deputy Minister of Education; Prof. Dr. Osman Mert, President of the Turkish Language Association; Acad. Isa Habibbeyli, President of ANAS; Acad. Shahin Mustafayev, President of the International Turkic Academy; Sayit Yusuf, Deputy Secretary General of TURKSOY; Farid Jafarov, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Ulkar Sattarova, Director of the State Agency for Science and Higher Education; Anar Rzayev, Chairman of the Azerbaijan Writers’ Union and People’s Writer; Prof. Almira Kaliyeva, Deputy Director for Research of the M.O. Auezov Institute of Literature and Art of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Professor of Marmara University and writer Ilyas Kemaloglu; and Prof. Bahrom Abdukhalimov, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.

At the plenary session and panel discussions, presentations were also delivered by prominent scholars including Prof. Dr. Osman Fikri Sertkaya, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Bican Ercilasun, Prof. Dr. Yavuz Akpınar, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Taşağıl and other distinguished historians and Turkologists. The presentations provided analysis of ancient Turkic written monuments, issues of a common alphabet, historical and cultural relations among Turkic peoples, and methodological directions of contemporary Turkological research. More than 60 scholars from Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan participated in the meeting.