Rector Prof. Dr. Avşar’s contacts in Uzbekistan
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An international conference on “The Role of Turkistan in the History of the Turkic Peoples” was held in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, with the motto of Imam Bukhari’s “There is no salvation other than wisdom”. The conference, where Rector Prof. Dr. Abdulhamit Avşar attended and presented a paper, was organized by the Turkic States Geography Council of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) and Journalism and Mass Communications University of Uzbekistan.
Deputy Secretary General of International Organization of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY) Mr. Sayit Yusuf, Deputy Secretary General of OTS Mr. Mirvahid Azimov, Secretary General of the Geographical Council of Turkic States of OTS Mr. Aybek Narinbayev, Rector of the Journalism and Mass Communications University of Uzbekistan Prof. Dr. Sherzod Kudratkhodjaev, Rector of Istanbul Ticaret University Prof. Dr. Abdülhamit Avşar, Director of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan Prof. Azamat Ziya, Türkiye’s Ambassador to Tashkent Mr. Olgan Bekar, and many scientists from Turkic states and communities attended the conference.
Speaking at the opening of the conference, Rector of the Journalism and Mass Communications University of Uzbekistan Prof. Dr. Kudratkhodjaev stated that it was pleasing that the conference was held in Tashkent, one of the centers of Turkic culture and civilization, and that important scientists from Turkic states attended the conference.
Prof. Dr. Kudratkhodjaev noted that their university would like to become a member of the Turkic Universities Association and continues its works in this direction, and stated that this conference is the first event they organized in this context.
During the two-day conference, sessions were held on topics such as politics and administration in Turkestan, the foundations of etatist traditions in Turkic states, science and culture in Turkestan during the Middle Ages, the architectural structures and art of Turkestan, the role and importance of Turkestan in the lives of the Turkic peoples.
Istanbul Ticaret University Rector Prof. Dr. Abdülhamit Avşar also attended the event, which brought together around 50 academicians from 30 countries of the world. Rector Prof. Dr. Avşar, who made a short greeting speech within the scope of the opening ceremony of the conference, presented a paper titled “Political Relations between Türkiye and Uzbekistan during Türkiye’s War of Independence: The Example of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye-Bukhara People’s Republic” on the second day of the event.
Ms. Zebiniso Kamalova, faculty member of the Department of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of our university, also attended the conference with a paper titled “History and Indoctrination in relation to Turkestan and Turkestan Identity”.
Within the framework of the international conference, the rector of Istanbul Ticaret University, Prof. Dr. Abdülhamit Avşar, and the rector of the Journalism and Mass Communications University of Uzbekistan Prof. Dr. Sherzod Kudratkhodjaev held bilateral meetings and signed a protocol to develop collaboration between their universities.
Prof. Dr. Avşar also visited Alfraganus University in Tashkent, and had a bilateral meeting with his counterpart Prof. Dr. Muhammad İsmail Mahmudov and signed a protocol.
