Shavkat Mirziyoyev

President of Uzbekistan

"We need to deeply study the history of the Jadid movement, the legacy of our enlightened ancestors... The more actively we promote this, the more our people, especially the youth, will appreciate the peaceful and free life we have today."

Under the auspices of the Organization of Turkic States and the Presidency of Uzbekistan, Professor Dr. Yusuf AVCI, Director of the Center for the Application and Research of Turkic World Values at our university, was specially invited to the conference titled "International Educational Activities of the Jadids: Ideas, Goals, Duties, and Contributions to the Development of Turkestan," held at the Turan Library in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

At the conference held on March 5-7, 2023, Professor Dr. Yusuf AVCI presented a study titled "The Language Understanding of Jadid Fitrat and His Place in Language Approaches," where he noted that Sarf and Nahiv, which had not been examined from a scientific perspective, should be considered among the first works of the Transformational Generative Linguistics Movement.

Among the many benefits of this conference, we applied the language step of İsmail Gaspıralı's saying "Unity in Language, Thought, and Work," achieved language unity, and made a note in Turkish history with this application. Unlike previous meetings where presentations were made in languages other than the mother tongue, in this conference, each speaker presented in Turkish in their own dialect, and all participants fully understood the presentations. We have decided to continue the understanding of alphabet and language unity in future meetings and to hold such conferences and social events more frequently.

May this be auspicious for the Turkic world.