3rd international conference of TURKSOY on “The Conventionalization, Inventory and Programming of the Non-material Cultural Heritage of Turkic Peoples”

Assembly Hall
Time: 9:30-13:00
Organizer: Ministry of Culture and Tourism

The 3rd International Conference of TURKSOY on “The Conventionalization, Inventory and Programming of the Non-material Cultural Heritage of the Turkic Peoples” opened at the Assembly Hall of the Museum Centre on 27 April 2010.
Senior officials of TURKSOY, experts from Turkey, Kazakhstan and other countries participated in the seminar, which was held with the organizational support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan. Thus, experts such as Firat Purtash (deputy General Secretary of the TURKSOY organization), Elchin Gafarly (Ministry of Culture and Tourism representative to the TURKSOY organization), Mahmut Evkuran (Director of the Head Office for Research and Education at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey), Shengul Ghitmez (Head of department at the Office for Research and Education at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey), Serikkazy Korabay (the M.O. Auezov Literature and Art Institute of the Republic of Kazakhstan), Fanziliya Zavgarova (Director of the State Centre for Collecting, Preserving, Researching and Promoting Tartar folklore), Yusuf Ors (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, art historian) and Fatima Ghiritli (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, researcher of folk music) were invited to the opening of the seminar. The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Abulfaz Garayev, greeted the participants in the event and wished the seminar success. He said that the first day of the seminar would be dedicated to lectures on “the conventionalization, inventory and programming of the non-material cultural heritage of Turkic peoples”.
In the second part of the day the participants left for Sheki, which was declared the art capital of Azerbaijan for 2010. The seminar continued in Sheki and the participants discussed the opportunities for forming an international register of the non-material cultural heritage of TURKSOY and the “Folklore Capitals of the Turkic World” International Programme of projects and then wound up the seminar.